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Clerical System 



ECONOMICS 

OF 

LIBRARY, PERIODICALS, SERMONOLOGY, 
CORRESPONDENCE, ADMINISTRATION, 

AND BUSINESS 



A CABINET CLASSIFICATION OF LITERARY WEALTH, 

HOMILETIC MATERIAL, SPECIAL STUDIES, 

AND OFFICE WORK 

INSCRIBED TO YOUNG MINISTERS OF ALL DENOMINATIONS, 

STUDENTS, AND ALL PROFESSIONAL PEOPLE 

WHOM IT MAY INTEREST 



BY 

WILLIS V. DICK 

Designer of the "Clerical Cabinet" and "Ready 
Sermonizer Series" 



*' Economy is . . . the growth of experience, example, 
and forethought.'' — Smiles 



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CONTENTS. 



PAGE 



The Clerical Cabinet Case (illustration), 

Preface, 9 

Introduction, - - , - ' . . . . 1 1 

Systematic Equipment : 

Registered Wealth, -.__._ 14 

In Command by Training, - - . - . 14 
System, --...._.i5 

Saving Material : 

The Library Books, ------ 17 

The Reference Record Described, - - - - 18 

Ready Reference Record : 

Specimen Index of Subjects, - - - - - 19 

Specimen Pages of Record, - - - - 21 

Subject Accumulations — Examples, - - - - 23 

The Clerical Cabinet : 

The Periodicals, -.---_ 26 

The Cabinet, -------- 28 

Index of Divisions, ------ 29 

The Cabinet Description, ----- 30 

Engraving : A Marked Envelope, - - - 31 

Preparation for Envelope Filing, - - - - 32 

Engraving : A Cell of Envelopes, with Labels, - 36 

Engraving : Contents of an Envelope, - - - Z7 

Engraving : Articles Marked for Filing, - - 2>^ 

Envelope : Subject Lists of Divisions, - - - 39 

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PAGE 

Contents of Specimen Envelopes, _ _ _ 67 

Advisory, ._----_- 68 

The Ready Sermonizer: 

The Study Bible, .-_-__ 69 

The Perpetual Sermon Record, - - - - 70 

Sermon Stationery, - - - - - - 71 

Utility Illustrated, - - 74 

Sermon-Record Forms — Exhibit, . _ . 76 

Page of Sermon Record, - - - - - 77 

Utilizing Literary Wealth: 

Eminent Examples of Clerical System, - - . 79 

Subject Development, - - - - - - 83 

Division of '* Illustrations," . _ _ _ S^ 

Value of Advertisements, ----- 85 

Library Revision, - - - - - - 86 

Book Review^s, -.--.--86 

Note-Books : 

Vagrant Wealth, - - - - - - 91 

The Pocket Arsenal — Index Page, Specimen Page, 

with Entries, ----- - - 92 

Vest Pocket Year-book, ----- g^ 

Minister's Reading Courses: 

Program Work, - - - - - - -102 

The Preparation of ** Copy," - - - - 102 

Church Records : 

Pastor's Parish Record — Illustrations, - - - 105 

System in Church Work : 

Administration, - - - -- - - 109 

Official Work, no 

The Official Meeting, in 

Printing, 113 

Qioir Organization, 114 



PAGE 

The Church Calendar: 

New Year, 115 

Easter, Easter Pastoral Letter, - - - - 116 

Birthday Observance, - - - - - -121 

Church Memorial Day, - - - - - 121 

Roll-call and Veteran's Festi^-al, - - - - 122 

Monthly Rallies, - - - - - - 123 

National Occasions, - - - - - -123 

Wisdom Culture Anniversary, - ' - - - 123 

Ministerial Functions : 

Pastoral Letters, - - - - - - -127 

Funereal Duty, - - - - - - - 127 

Order of Worship, - 128 

Evangelism, 129 




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THE CLERICAL CABINET. 

I am as proud of the specimens I gather into my cabinet 
as ever a collector of crystals was of his captured gems." — 
Joseph Cook. 

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PREFACE. 

Correspondence elicited by the publication of 
the writer's clerical cabinet, subject and sermon 
record books, and sermon stationery, seems to justify 
the production of this volume. Close study of 
everything within reach during twenty-two years; 
careful trials of methods with manifold experiments, 
and an extensive knowledge of the many labor and 
time saving devices issued for preserving and utiliz- 
ing the treasures of the library and literary miscel- 
lany; experience in secretarial and program work, 
and schedule making,— all these, together with ad- 
ministrative responsibilities, may be accepted as cre- 
dentials. The utmost simplicity and elasticity 
commend the system outlined in this manual, and it 
is believed that all who may examine these forms of 
clerical inventory will be impressed with the utility 
of the work. 

Columbus, Ohio, 1904. 

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INTRODUCTION. 

It is my belief that no book of recent years has 
been published of greater value to the careful min- 
ister than Dr. Dick's ^^ Clerical System." To re- 
deem the time, to save one's self from a large 
amount of mental drudgery, to have at hand for 
ready reference the material gathered through a 
series of years, to have the right kind of facts hung 
on the right hooks to be taken down for instant use, 
is a possession of untold value to the busy minister. 

The world has no time to listen to poor preach- 
ing; we mean preaching that is not re-enforced by 
the latest truth gathered from every possible au- 
thority with which the industrious preacher always 
fills his sermon. Lack of results in preaching may 
often be traced to lack of discipline in preparation 
and lack of material at hand for use when needed. 
The man who insists on personal discipline of this 
sort will presently find himself able to do two things 
with regard to his reading : he will learn what to skip, 

and he will learn to read with a view to using it. 

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He will not become an animated scrapbook, for the 
man who can do all this will also do his own think- 
ing and reach his own conclusions. It pays to take 
trouble ; it pays to have a working plan ; and it pays 
to have a high standard of excellence for one's self, 
for one is not apt to be any better than he plans. 
There is a victory assured in the determination on the 
part of the young minister that he will gather honey 
out of every flower, and if the flowers are not handy, 
then he will get it out of weeds. In other words, he 
can make all things tributary to his personal enrich- 
ment if he will. 

This book is a wise and timely contribution to 
this end. It will help any one who wants to succeed, 
and, if that be true, it is certain to have a very large 
sale. H. C. Jennings. 



SYSTEMATIC EQUIPMENT. 

This production is the result of experiment and 
experience, costly in time and labor, by which a 
plain, convenient, comprehensive, and effective plan 
has been evolved for utilizing literary wealth, for 
ready sermon-building, clerical notation, and imme- 
diate reference to anything in the minister's study- 
room equipment. No advice is offered concerning 
the selection of library books, and nothing is outlined 
that invades the science of homiletics. 

The minister is a constant student and should be 
an example of systematic work. If he classifies his 
reading and thought properly, he will have, event- 
ually, a valuable, ever-ready, and exhaustless equip- 
ment. 

Ever, as time advances, it will become more and 
more difficult to keep track of human thought, move- 
ments, and achievement, and we are driven to rigid 
rules in order to preserve the respect and confidence 
of people, and to justify our own conscience. 

Time and labor-saving devices are employed in 
industrialism, in the professions, science, and every- 
where. Business can not flourish except by card 
and cabinet systems in office work. 

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REGISTERED WEALTH. 

Overtaxing It is needlessly cruel to overtax memory. It is 
Memory, j^q^- gQ much what one carries in his head, as what he 
can have upon requisition, that is needed. He knows 
where his treasure is, and does not have to search the 
room or sweep the floor to find the coin. Much can 
be saved without thorough study, and when that sub- 
ject begins to grow in the minister's mind, his mine 
is ready to be worked. 
Memory Memory must be aided by clerical notation, and 
Aided, the devious evolutions of form in such notation have 
made many an hour dismal and disheartening to the 
sermonist. He feels that he is under duty to his 
conscience, congregation, and Lord to do the most 
effective work of w^hich he is capable. If persistent 
diligence only is needed to compass success, then 
there is no excuse for failure. Talent grows by train - 
ji ing, and discipline prepares for attainment and the 

wise use of knowledge. 

IN COMMAND BY TRAINING. 

Illustrative Not what one earns but saves, and not what he 
Values, reads but controls, is wealth. To keep track of the 
world is duty. We are after it to help it, and be 
helped by it, and must know where it is and what. 
We are to save it, and be saved by it in more ways 
than one. Therefore, it must be pursued. One pro- 



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lific, popular, ministerial writer discourses on the 
theological seminary he ^^vould like to enter. "^ 
He wants a department in chalk-talk and cartoon 
work, and a practical course in chemistry, geology, 
and astronomy with reference to their illustration of 
spiritual ideas. 

The ministerial novice may have had splendid 
scholastic preparation, yet he goes forth unskilled in 
practical sermon -making, and in the art of homiletic 
economy. He must learn to preach by preaching. 
He must select text and subject, to be illumined by 
mental and spiritual perception, and enriched out of 
his storehouse of material. 

Could one think again the thoughts which some- Fugitive 

times come to him as vagrants, but were undetained Literary 

Wealtli 

and unrecorded, how welcome they would be in 

emergency ! 

Facts and points possessed can not be located, 
and ofttimes more effort is given to search than to 
preparation. 

It was said of a certain able minister that he could 
prepare a new sermon quicker than he could find an 
old one. 

A minister who is not in control of his own re- 
sources, who has failed to discipline his treasures, 
who can not, like a wise scribe, bring forth out of 
his treasures things new and old, is shorn of his 

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strength. Happy the one who is ^^ monarch of all 

he surveys." 

SYSTEM. 

Too small attention is given to training the min- 
ister in literary economics and record-keeping. Req- 
uisites and every facility afforded by manufactured 
inventions, that can be used with profit, should be 
employed. 
Seeking Many of us, if we had been given the right start 
^" ."^ in utilizing time and labor-saving devices, need not 
' have wasted precious hours in searching for what we 
needed, knowing it was somewhere within reach, yet 
unable to find it, or to find out what we needed in 
order to find it. 
The Sin of It would be well now to have an examination of 
Carelessness, candidates for the ministry on the clerical habits and 
system employed in ministerial work. ^^Like priest 
like people." Carelessness in the one spreads a 
contagion of carelessness among Church officers. The 
one insistent theory of Christianity is, do now the 

DUTY OF THE MOMENT ! 



SAVING MATERIAL. 

What ministerial methods of getting, saving, Experimenting, 
and using knowledge can be employed to advantage ? 
One uses his Bible as an index rerum. Another has 
a system of key letters in a file case. Some a card 
device, or scrapbook series, or pigeon-hole recepta- 
cles. There is a general trying and seeking upon 
the part of ministers to find the way. 

THE LIBRARY BOOKS. 

What shall be done with them ? Works of refer- jfie Subject 
ence are ready for use whenever needed, and are Record. 
passed by. But poetry and all the classics, history, 
biography, science, philosophy, sociology, theology, 
and all the rest, — how can they be made to minister 
to our needs? Few can have a second reading, and 
we can not rely upon the index to cite us properly. 
The consensus of opinion is that a subject record 
BOOK meets the need. The publication of such a 
volume, in neat, substantial form, has proved to be 
the thing desired. 

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THE READY REFERENCE RECORD 

DESCRIBED. 

The Record This is a blank book of more than five hundred 

Described, pages, six by twelve inches, with lettered index, in 

which every subject of interest to the minister can be 

recorded, and a glance reveals the location of any 

• literary material desired. 

Preceding the blank pages of the lettered index, 
in which each one may write his own list of sub- 
jects, there is a printed Specimen Index of five hun- 
dred subjects, properly paged, and printed. There 
is ruled space for thirty-six entries to the page, in the 
body of the Record. 



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READY REFERENCE RECORD. 



SPECIMEN INDEX OF SUBJECTS 

(Initial Part.) ■ 

PAGE 

Advertising, , 176 

Aerial Navigation, 177 

Age, 178 

Agriculture, 179 

Amusements, 180 

Architecture, 183 

Art, 30 

American, 32 

Ancient, ^^ 

Esthetics, 34 

European, 35 

Museums, 36 

Oriental, 36 

Painting — Drawing, . . 37 

Photography, 37 

Pottery, 38 

Sculpture, 38 

Astronomy, 184 

Athletics — Sports, 185 

Atmosphere — Climate, 186 

Automobile, etc., 187 

Avarice, 188 

Bankers — Banking, 189 

Benevolences, " 190 

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Bible-Bibliology, 39 

Acts, 41 

Adam and << Pre. A." 42 

Angelology, 42 

Apocrypha, 42 

Apostles, 43 

Archaeology, 44 

Bible Society, 46 

Caesars, 47 

Characters (O. T. ), •47 

Children of Bible, 48 

Creation, 49 

Criticism (Hist, and Lit.), 49 

Demonology, 50 

Deuteronomy, 50 

Eden, 51 

Epistles, 51 

Epistles, Pauline, 52 

Exegesis, 52 

Feasts (Jewish), 53 

Genesis, 53 

Gentiles, 54 

God, . .55 

Gospels, 56 

Hades, 57 

Heaven, • 57 

Historical Books, 5^ 

History (N. T.), 59 

History (O. T.), 59 

Holy Spirit, 60 

Idolatry, 60 

Immortality, 61 

Jews, 62 

Kings (Jewish), ,. o . 63 



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Magic, &c., 64 

Miracles, 64 

Moses, 65 

New Testament, 66 

Old Testament, 67 

Palestine, 68 

Parables, 69 

Patriarchs, ^ 7^ 

Paul, 71 

Pentateuch, 72 

SPECIMEN PAGES OF RECORD. 



Christ : 



SUBJECT, 



LITERARY REFERENCE. 



Pre-existence of. 


M. R.,3-02. page 124. 


Personality of. 


Ballard, ''Mir. ofUnb." 
p. 248. 


Ideal Character. 


Lecky, ''Hist. En. Mor- 
als" III, p. 88. 


Estimate of. 


Strauss, "Life of Je- 
sus," p. 62s- 


Humanity of. 


Nash, "Hist. High. 
Grit," p.2S. 


Deity of., How Discov\i. 


Grif.-Jones, "Asc. Th. 
Christ," p. 2SQ. 


Christ as an Hist. Character. 


Clark, " Out. of 1 he- 
logy," p. 2bs. 


SUBJECT, 


LITERARY RFFERENCE. 


Christ, Incarnation : 


Page I2y. 


S. of Man and S. of God. 


Drujnjnond, "Ap. T.- 
Teach of Christ," p. 

212. 



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SUBJECT, 


LITERARY REFERENCE. 


The Logos Doctrine. 


Bra dfo r d , ''Age of 
Faith," p. 38. 


Supernaturally Bo7'n ? 


L. D. 12-20-02. 


On Influence of the Inc^n. 


Grif.-Jones, ''Asc. Th. 
Christ;' p. 23s. 


SUBJECT, 


LITERARY REFERENCE. 


Evolution : 


Page 218. 


Is Darwinism on Death Bed? 


L. D. 10-J8-02. 


The Struggle for Existence. 


L. D. 8-8-03. 


Not for Survival, but Domination. 


Mailoch, '' Arist. and 
Ev.'' p. 130. 


Beginning of Diverging Lines. 


Gri/.-Iones, "Asc. Th. 

cr p.32. 


Man' s Origin in God. 


Pike, The ''Div. 
Dravia, p. 364." 


The Sign of a ^^ Nezv Man.'''' 


Zangwill, " Man. of 
Elijah," p. 268. 


Man the ^^ Terminal Fact'''' in Biology. 


Fiske, ''Idea of God," 
Ch. xxi. 


Doc. of Ev. in the igth Gen. 


A d eney , *' Prog, of 
Relig.' Th.," p.64. 


Ev. Indicative of Immor'^y. 


Clark, "Out. Ch. 
The.," p.iQS. 


SUBJECT, 


LITERARY REFERENCE. 


Tdterature : 


Page 24b 


Literary Degeneration. 


L. D. g-2g-g4. 


The Death-Motive in Literature. 


L. D. b-7-02. 



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SUBJECT ACCUMULATIONS. 

To illustrate what a subject may develop within 
a few years, under the record system, the writer's 
^ ' Music ' ' page shows the following : 

Piano Playing a Disease; Can a Musical Note Index of One 
Cause Explosions ? Has Music Any Meaning ? The ^"'^M* 
Worship of Song, and Hymn Reading — Illustrated ; 
Classic Music Origins ; Music and Sociology ; Does 
Music Incite to Crime? Development of Song in 
Birds ; The Permanence of Ragtime Music ; Sidney 
Lanier on Music ; Richard Strauss and a New Era for 
Music ; Reform of Church Music ; New Departure in 
Vocal Science ; Isaac Watts, Founder of English 
Hymnody ; The Immoralities of Music ; The Mus- 
ical Symphony ; Hymnology Reviewed by an English 
Peer ; An Example of Pictorial Music ; Physiological 
Basis of Musical Feeling ; Billings, Father of Amer- 
ican Music ; Strauss' s Influence Upon Orchestral 
Music ; Vital Figures in American Music ; The Mar- 
seillaise ; New Oratorios; America's Musical Pov- 
erty ; Singing, a Lost Art ; True Negro Music Ob- 
solete ; Neglected Side of Musical Education ; 
Women and Music ; Music of American Indians ; 
Pathological Music ; Present Condition of Music, etc. 

Indeed, so rich is the record, that a mere glance A Were Glance 
at the entries of the page, without reference to the Significant, 
articles, ofttimes is sufficient to suggest the history of 



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the subject. Our '' Negro *' page gives this ex- 
hibit : 

Necessity of Higher Education for the Negro ; 
The ^^Beasthood " of the Negro a New Key to Bib- 
lical Interpretation ; Race Separation ; Mulattoes as 
Writers ; Are Negroes Deficient in Vital Resistance ? 
The Negro as Literary Material ; The Negro as a 
Blessing ; Negro Views of the Ex-slave Pension Bill ; 
Alleged Negro Slavery in Alabama ; Negro Christian- 
ity in the West Indies; A Lawyer's Solution of the 
Negro Problem ; The Mulatto Problem ; Congress 
and Negro Suffrage ; Opposition to Booker Wash- 
ington ; Christianity for Whites Only, etc. 
The "Science" Or, ^^ Science:'' 

List. Standing of American Scientists ; Science in 
America ; Origin and Progress of Science ; Earth as 
a Great Steam Boiler ; Is there a Nascent State ? Do 
Natures' Laws Change ? An Unexplored Universe ; 
How Scientific Discoveries are Made ; Is Coal a 
Bacterial Product? Is Matter Alive? Does Water 
Dissolve Glass ? Repulsive Forces in Nature ; The 
Birth and Death of Worlds ; What Becomes of Dis- 
solved Substances? Does Weight Depend on Tem- 
perature ? Disease in Metals ; The Age of Radium ; 
^^ Cruelty" in Plants; Pictures of the Forces at 
Work in Liquids ; Is Applied Science Vulgar ? Must 
our Chemistries Be Rewritten ? Shall We Give Up 
the Atom ? etc. 



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Thus the subject record becomes the chronology 
of the history of a subject, whether of literature, 
politics, countries, reforms, railroads, science, relig- 
ion, sociology, theology, or the world. One's 
library is under his thumb, and the delightful sense 
of ownership is experienced. 

In case one volume is exhausted, a second one A Literary Con- 
can be started. Should any one subject become too cordance. 
prolific for the space allotted, a mark at the bottom 
of the page will show that it is carried to another 
page where there is room and to spare. The Refer- 
ence Record is the minister's literary concordance 
and workshop indicator. 

In after years, a second volume can be used, 
when needed, with the same classifications. 



THE CLERICAL CABINET. 

THE PERIODICALS. 

The minister owes it to himself as well as to his 
work to know his periodicals every week. The de- 
nominational papers should be scanned thoroughly, 
with fountain pen or pencil in hand. 
Reading for Future a light line drawn along the side margin of every 
eerence. utterance of interest, being the gist of the matter 

treated, will save rereading the entire article again. 
If the article is worthy of preservation, the initials of 
the periodical at the head of the article can be 
marked, with date, so that when the reading is fin- 
ished and the periodical digested, it can be cut to 
pieces readily and the articles properly distributed. 
Advertisements Even in the advertisements, and local Church 

and Local News, j^^^g, something of value for future use may appear 

and should receive proper surgical care. 

Disposal of Pe- But shall the periodicals be destroyed ? File them 

riodicals ^^d keep at hand the annual index? What treasures 

the minister will have in later years ! However, as 

the shelves gradually fill to overflowing, the task 

of utilizing the files becomes prodigious. 

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Time is too valuable to employ it in searching the 
musty tomes of ephemeral literature. 

Possibly, though, the volumes have been bound 
at a dollar and a half each, which adds to the owner's 
distress. The master is the slave. He meditates. The Master in 
He has dusted and moved those files again and again, Slavery. 
and used them so liitle ! He is awed by their grow- 
ing immensity. 

Though the very thought seems almost sacrileg- 
ious, he finally determines to rid his study of the 
incubus. The world survived the destruction of the 
great Alexandrian library, the Ephesian bonfire, and 
the burning of Bibles. 

So these files of * ^ periodical " troubles the min- The Incubus 
ister will destroy ! But, what a pity ! He relents Attacked, 
a little, and decides to explore the files with scissors 
or metal ruler, pen, paste, and paper clasps, clip 
and catalogue what may please him, and — burn the 
wreck ! 

This is wise. It will take the odd hours of sev- 
eral weeks, possibly months, to complete the task, 
but the time so employed will be well spent. 

Only a few — better one or two — general period- The Task Com- 
icals of highest literary and historical interest areP'^^^^- 
spared from mutilation and destruction. Their most 
valued articles, or paragraphs, are indexed in the 
subject-record book, and are thus available and 
ready for use. 



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THE CABINET. 

The clerical cabinet, home-made or factory- 
made, becomes of great value. Some of the high- 
priced cyclopedic files manufactured are too intricate, 
and provide too many subdivisions of interrelated 
subjects. Too much labor is required to keep such 
in order. 
Simplicity and Simplicity and flexibility are the essential quali- 

Flexibiliiy. ties of a workable system. Economy of time and 
money is a desideratum. 
Cabinet Case A case in mind, home-made, that answers the 

Described, j-eal purpose, is given. Height, 7 feet ; width, 44 
inches; depth (inner measure), 10 ^^ inches. It was 
built as a book-case, and utilized for cabinet purpose 
by inserting intermediate shelves, with tin divisions, 
making the receptacles 7x4 inches. For readier 
moving the case was sawed in two and left standing 
in original position. Double doors were provided 
with glass panels, that the dust might be excluded. 

No case for books or cabinet material is worth the 
space it occupies, unless it is inclosed. The doors 
should be provided with fastenings. There is no 
cleaning or dusting needed within, and the contents 
are always attractive, and need not be removed how- 
ever far the case may go in transportation. Fastened 
securely, it will ride by wagon, car, or boat, and be 
ready for use in five minutes after landing. 



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This description is given to encourage some who 
would hesitate to incur the expense necessary to 
secure a case that would be a piece of fine furniture. 
The cabinet work and classification would be the same 
for any case, whether of unfinished lumber or the finest 
mahogany. It ought to be said that the invention of Fire-proof febinet. 
a fireproof cabinet case is being developed that will 
be far superior to any of wood, lighter in weight, and 
less expensive than those offered in the market at the 
present time. But this notice should not delay the 
development and use of the cabinet plan. 



INDEX OF 

Art. 

Bible. 

Borderland. 

Christ. 

Christian. 

Christianity. 

Christianity — Doctrines. 

Church. 

Church Work. 

Correspondence. 

Death and the Dead. 

Education. 

Financial. 

Fraternal Orders. 

Furnishings — Supplies. 

General. 

Illustrations. 

Insurance. 

Invention. 



DIVISIONS. 

Investments. 

Literature. 

Marriage — Divorce. 

Medical Science. 

Missions. 

Music. 

National. 

Philosophy. 

Prayer — Providence. 

Preachers — Preaching. 

Publishers — Publications. 

Reforms — Sociology. 

Religion — Religions. 

Sunday-school. 

Travel — Vacation. 

Woman. 

World. 



Sermon Series. 



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Neat, gummed labels for use on the cabinet 
shelving can be purchased at ten cents per hundred. 



Specimen : 




THE ENVELOPE CABINET DESCRIBED. 

After much investigation, experiment, and expe- 
rience, it appears that, of all cabinet receptacles, the 
envelope is best. What may be regarded as the 
The Manilla standard in size and weight is known as the Manilla 
Envelope, pamphlet, 6)^ x 91^, open end with flap. 

A smaller size will not carry magazine pages and 
pamphlets in the usual forms. A larger size consumes 
too much cabinet space. A heavier envelope also 
consumes space and is more expensive. The size 
named above can be made to answer all needs, and 
can be bought in 500 lots at about 90 cents, or ^1.75 
per thousand. 
Uniformity Es- The size adopted should be continued, for the sake 
sential. Qf uniformity, in every division. 

Everything can be brought into a condition for 
immediate reference and use that is not found in the 
subject record of library wealth and in the other 
forms of literature preserved, and indexed. 

By writing the sub -title on the bottom margin of 
the envelope, as in the accompanying illustration, the 



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open case, and proper division, will reveal the en- 
velope desired, at a glance. The flap at the top of 
the envelope is useless except that it makes a firmer 
edge when pushed to its place in. the cell. Alpha- 
betical order in each division is the essential care 
necessary. 

This system makes unnecessary the card index, as Card Index Not 
the envelopes are as readily found as the card. The l^^^^f**- 
card index is excellent for parish membership record. 

Size : 6)^ x 9^ inches. 




A Marked Cabinet Envelope. 

** Master of the Facts, . . , Master of the Situation," 
-Gilbert, 



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PREPARATION FOR ENVELOPE FILING. 

The daily paper ; literary, scientic, and religious 
periodicals ; magazines, pamphlets, book announce- 
ments, and all the mail traffic ; and Church and 
business matters, are to be digested, assorted, noted, 
carved, and placed. 

The ephemeral ' ' daily ' ^ will furnish something, 
marked as read, in any blank space the article fur- 
nishes at top, or bottom, or center, as : O. S. J., i- 
20—04. 
Marking Current While reading, draw a line along important parts 
Literature for for convenience in reference ; clip, and place in the 
Dissection. pj.Qpgj. su]3ject envelope. In more valuable period- 
icals, the religious for instance, the marking habit 
should be followed, with initials of paper and date 
on any margin, unless the entire page is to be excised, 
in which case the name and date usually appear in 
print. 
Discerning Values. Few extra moments are demanded to track the 
reading with such notations in any and every article 
worth preserving. When through, it may be found 
that articles on both sides of a page, and column, are 
marked, but a glance will determine which is more 
valuable, and the metal-edge ruler held on the surface 
soon presents the extract. 

Now and then the paste tube will be used to unite 
dissevered portions of articles in different columns. 

Frequently, the closing paragraph may be forfeited 



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to preserve another article that follows, but the clos- 
ing paragraph rarely contains facts, and may be dis- 
pensed with. 

Magazines, with their lengthy subjects, are easier The Process of 
handled. The metal ruler held firmly against the ^''^^'sion. 
inner margin of the initial page usually will suffice for 
tearing all the leaves of a given subject out at once, 
and the small wire clasp is slipped over the leaves at 
the left hand top corner and made secure. 

This permits reading the article as well as before 
the removal was effected. Many books could be 
treated similarly with profit. 

Pamphlets should be made the subjects of nota- 
tion likewise, and all find their appropriate home in 
the envelope cabinet. 

Advertisements, book announcements — every The Notation of 
thing preserved in the cabinet, should be marked with ^^tes Important, 
the date of publication, or entrance in the minister's 
study. 

With all periodical literature duly marked as read 
the surgical operations may be delayed, but at least 
once every week the whole of it should reach the cab- 
inet, for any article can be found as easily there as 
in the original form. 

Where but two or three pages of a magazine 
article contain the whole of it, instead of the metal 
clasp a touch of paste between the sheets at the des- 
ignated corner (left hand at the top), serves as a neat 
fastening. * 3 



— 34 — 

The Bibliography It should be remembered that one of the impor- 
of a Subject, ^^j;^^ features of the envelope cabinet is its bibliography 
of every subject. Book announcements and press 
reviews of the same are distributed in the envelopes 
according to subjects, so that the minister can have 
at hand a catalogue of the book literature of any sub- 
ject not already in his library. 
Driven to Despera- With the Ready Reference Record of his library 
*'^"' and preserved periodicals, and the envelope cabinet, 
he is in constant command of all his resources. Dr. 
W. L. Watkinson, of England, believes ^ ^ that many 
a preacher who resorts to eccentric and sensational 
stratagems does so from the consciousness of the 
meagerness and frailty of his theological and philo- 
sophical resources, ' * and Professor Thayer, of Harvard 
Divinity School, said to his students not long since : 
*^Do you wish to become great? Remember, it 
means more hours at your desk. The greater you 
desire to become, the more hours you must work.'* 
And to this, such eminent preachers as Bishop Fow- 
ler, and the late Bishop Brooks would have said 
' ' amen ! ' ' 

The writer is aware that some features of this 
system have come to him from the writings and 
teachings of others, here a little and there a little, 
but the economy of saving and utilizing material and 
the forms of record and cabinet classification as out- 
lined herein, are the outgrowth of his own study and 



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experience. It would be a pleasure to acknowledge 
in detail every source of helpfulness in this life work, 
were it possible to do so. 

The struggle with the scrapbook series was ended 
after much patient application. The intricate ^^ let- 
ter ' ' file method was used and discarded, and the 
consumation of all previous experiments is set forth 
in these pages. 

Among those who have brought their equipment 
under this system, so far as is known, there is not one 
discordant note in the testimony of appreciation. 







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Excised Articles Ready for Filing. 



*'In the early part of life we collect the materials ; as we 
grow older we learn to use them." — Wayland. 

38 



39 — 



ENVELOPE SUBJECTS OF DIVISIONS. 



Art : 

American. 

Egyptian. 

France-Switz. 

Greece. 

Influence of. 

Italy. 

Madonnas, etc. 

Museums. 

Oriental. 

Painting. 

Painting, Masterpieces. 

Photography. 

Portraits. 

Portraits, Artists. 

Portraits, Mil., Naval. 

Portraits, National. 

Portraits, Preachers, Re- 
formers. 

Portraits of Rulers, Royalty. 

Portraits, Self — family. 

Pottery. 

Sculpture. 

Sculpture, American. 
Bible-Bibliology : 

Abraham. 

Acts. 

Adam (and **Pre.") 

Amos. 

Angelology. 

Apocrypha. 



Apostles. 
Babylon. 

Bible, Achievements — Influ- 
ence. 
Bible Addresses, Sub. Matter. 
Bible and America. 
Bible Archaeology. 
Bible, Authority of. 
Bible Characters. 
Bible Children. 
Bible Circulation. 
Bible Criticism. 
Bible Customs. 
Bible and Experience. 
Bible Eulogies by Em. Men. 
Bible History. 
Bible and Indians. 
Bible, Inspiration of. 
Bible, Interpretation of. 
Bible and Jews. 
Bible as, and. Literature 
Bible Making. 
Bible, Men of, and Man. 
Bible and Missions. 
Bible and Oratory. 
Bible Revisions. 
Bible and Schools. 
Bible Societies. 
Bible Society Addresses. 
Bible Society, American. 
Bible Society, Colportage. 



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Bible Society and Mission' 

Bible Study. 

Bible and Sunday-school. 

Bible Tested Historically. 

Bible Translations. 

Bible Versions. 

Bible World. 

Caesars. 

Christ. 

Christianity. 

Christians. 

Chronicles. 

Colossians. 

Commentaries, etc. 

Corinthians, I, II. 

Covenants. 

Creation. 

David. 

Daniel. 

Decalogue. 

Deluge. 

Demonology. 

Deuteronomy. 

Easter. 

Ecclesiastes. 

Eden. 

Elijah. 

Ephesians. 

Epistles. 

Esther. 

Exodus. 

Ezra. 

Feasts (Jewish.) 

Galatians. 



Genesis. 

Gentiles. 

God. 

Gospel — Gospels. 

Gospels, pseudo. 

Habakkuk. 

Hades. 

Haggai. 

Heaven. 

Hebrews (Epistle.) 

Holy Spirit. 

Hosea. 

Idolatry. 

Immortality. 

Isaiah. 

Israel. 

James. 

Jeremiah. 

Jerusalem. 

Jews. 

Job. 

Joel. 

John Baptist. 

John, Gospel. 

John, Epistles. 

Jonah. 

Joshua. 

Jude. 

Judges. 

Kings (Books.) 

Lamentations. 

Leviticus. 

Luke. 

Magic, Witchcraft, etc. 



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Malachi. 

Mark. 

Matthew. 

Micah. 

Miracles. 

Moses 

Nahum. 

Nehemiah. 

New Testament. 

Nicodemus. 

Numbers. 

Obadiah. 

Old Testament. 

Orientalisms. 

Palestine. 

Parables. 

Patriarchs. 

Paul. 

Pentateuch. 

Peter, Epistles. 

Pharaohs. 

Philemon. 

Philippians. 

Philistia. 

Prayers. 

Priesthood. 

Prophecy. 

Prophets, 

Proverbs. 

Psalms. 

Revelation (Book) 

Revelation, Methods of. 

Romans. 

Ruth. 



Sabbath, 
Samson. 

Samuel (Books.) 
Sanctuary. 
Satan — Sin. 
Solomon. 
Song. 

Synagogue. 
Temple. 

Thessalonians, I, II. 
Timothy, Epistles. 
Tithing. 
Titus. 

Women of Bible. 
World, Bible. 
Zechariah — Zephaniah. 
Borderland : 
Adventism. 
Astrology. 
Borderland. 
Clairvoyance. 
** Christian Science. '* 
Credulity. 
*'Dowieism." 
Dreams. 

<^ Faith Cure" and *' Heal- 
ers. ' ' 
Fakes. 

False Messiahs. 
Fanaticism. 
Hypnotism. 
Imaginations. 
*' Miracles." 
Oracles. 



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J) 



** Spiritualism.' 

Superstitions. 

Telepathy. 

Theosophy. 

Witchcraft. 
Christ : 

Christ. 

Christ in Art. 

Christ, Ascension. 

Christ, Atonement. 

Christ, Authority. 

Christ and Classes. 

Christ, Crucifixion. 

Christ, Epiphany. 

Christ, Exaltation. 

Christ, Foretold. 

Christ, Gethsemane. 

Christ, Humiliation. 

Christ, Incarnation. 

Christ, Lenten Season. 

Christ, Life of. 

Christ, Ministry. 

Christ, Nature. 

Christ, Passion Week. 

Christ, Resurrection. 

Christ, Sayings of. 

Christ, Supper. 

Christ, Temptation. 

Christ, Youth. 
Christian : 

Biography. 

Citizenship. 

Ethics. 

Experience. 



Hygiene. 

Inconsistencies. 

Growth of. 

Martyrdom. 

Perfection. 

Profession. 

Service. 

Visions of. 

Year (Christian.) ' 
Christianity : 

Ace. to Christ. 

And Evolution. 

Heirship of. 

And Infidelity. 

Influence on Civilization. 

Liberality of. 

And Millenium. 

Oriental. 

Paganism in. 

And Philosophy. 

And Physical Life. 

Power to Make Men. 

Program of. 

Prophets of. 

And Reason. 

Reformation, Reformers. 

Religious Forces of. 

And Science. 

And Socialism. 
Christianity — Doctrines 

Apologetics. 

Arminianism. 

Calvinism. 

Communion. 



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Confession. 
Conversion. 
Depravity. 
Eschatology. 
Faith. 

Immanence. 
Probation. 
Regeneration. 
Sanctification. 
Ethics. 

Evolution and Mod. Theol. 
Hypocrisy. 
Kingdom of God. 
Natural and Spiritual. 
Psychology of Religious Life. 
Renaissance. 
Retribution. 
Sacraments. 
Spiritual World. 
Spirituality. 
Theologians. 
Theologians, German. 
Theology. 

Theology of Mod. Fiction. 
Theology, **New." 
Church ; 
Attendance. 
Adventism. 
Apostolic. 
Baptist. 

Care of Converts. 
Rom. Cath. 
Rom. Cath. Mystics. 
Rom. Cath. Vatican. 



Christian Connection. 

Congregational. 

Of England. 

Entertainments. 

Evangel. x\ssociation. 

Fathers. 

Friends. 

Federation — Union. 

Functions. 

Future. 

History. 

Hygiene. 

Institutional. 

Jewish. 

Laymen. 

And Lent. 

Liturgy. 

Lutheran. 

Membership. 

Memorial Sunday. 

Meth. Episcopal. 

Meth. Episcopal, South. 

Methodist, Other Bodies. 

Methodist Protestant. 

And Modern Methods. 

Pentecost. 

Presbyterian. 

Protestant Episcopal. 

Protestantism. _^ 

Reformed. 

Salvation Army. 

And Societies. 

Unitarian. 

United Brethren. 



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Universalist. 

Other Denominations. 

Churches — Cathedrals. 
Church Furnishings — Sup- 
plies : 

Architectural Designs. 

Bells. 

Communion Outfits. 

Engravings. 

Furniture. 

Financial. 

Fresco — Glass. 

Heating. 

Light. 

Organs. 

Supplies (General.) 
Church Work: 

Aid Societies. 

' * Attendance ' ' Methods. 

** Benevolence" Methods. 

Brotherhoods. 

Building and Repair Plans. 

Calendar. 

* * Calendar ' ' Ideas. 

Cards, Announcements, In- 
vitations. 

Centennial Observance. 

Children' s-day. 

Choir — Or ch e str a . 



Christmas. 

Church Life — Activities. 

Church Year — Days. 

Conventions — Institutes. 

Corner-stone Laying. 

Cuts for Printing. 

Dedication Programs. 

Debt-raising Plans. 

Directories. 

Easter. 

Entertainments. 

Envelope System. 

Evangelism. 

Financial Plans. 

Financial Forms — Printed. 

** Institutional" Work. 

Insurance. 

Invitations. 

Leaflets — Parish Papers. 

Lenten Programs. 

Lyceum Work. 

Membership — Card System. 

Memorial Days. 

Pastoral Correspondence. 

Pastoral Invitation. 

Prayer-meeting. 

Printing (Church.) 

Programs. 



Correspondence : 

It is a simple but commendable practice to use a small, 
open-end memorandum book in which the correspondence of the 
year is traced. On the cover may be written : 



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Correspondence, 1904. 
Then, within : 

January, 

2. A. W. Menex, Toledo (cone, book.) 
2. L. H. Senser, Cairo (eh. eert. for'd.) 
5. Ina Houek (notiee of meeting.) 
5. Johnson and Brown ( eh' k mailed. ) 

At the end of the month the number of communications can 
be noted in a minute, and at the end of the year, the total 
number. 

On the other hand, communications received should be 
marked properly and filed. If the envelopes are saved, then 
they may be dealt with as follows : 

"CORRESPONDENCE" CABINET DIVISION. 



First Quarter, 


1904 


- • 


Ans. 1-12-04. 




W 


Request granted. 




H. Jessler, 
Newport, 


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• 






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Hintner, 
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The name of the quarter need appear only on the 
first envelope received. Numbered consecutively in 
each quarter, immediate reference can be made to 
any letter. If a rubber band is cast about No. i, 
then the succeeding letters, properly marked, can be 
slipped beneath the first, and perfect order is the re- 
sult. At the end of the quarter that package is 
placed in the correspondence box, and the second 
quarter started in similar manner. At the end of 
the year the bundle for the year is retired, or sifted 
of the obsolete and useless, and the residue preserved 
undisturbed. The correspondence book should be 
kept with the stationery, and at the end of the year 
should be bound with the letters, and a new book 
provided. 

Or, a double-page book can be used. The left 
page for letters received, marked with date and name 
of sender, and the right page used for letters sent. 
This makes a complete index of correspondence for 
the year, and will ofttimes prove valuable for refer- 
ence afterward. Some would prefer a permanent, 
perpetual book, with correspondence classified by 
subjects, or names of correspondents alphabetically 
arranged, and for this purpose there is nothing more 
convenient than a copy of the Ready Reference 
Record. 

The importance of prompt attention to one's 
mail is so evident in these days that discussion of the 



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subject is hardly needed. Yet there are some incur- 
ables who live by the patience of their friends. 

It ought to be needless to say that the minister 
should use printed letter or note-heads, for it is inex- 
cusable not to do so. The print should be modest but 
official. As pastor means minister, the ^^Rev. " is 
unnecessary. *^ Henry Rochester, Pastor," is better 
off without the prefix. ^^ Pastor Rochester" is a 
better expression than ' ' Rev. Rochester. ' ' There is 
no reasonable objection to the use of earned or hon- 
orary literary ^* degree" letters following the name 
of the minister. 



Death — the Dead: 


Baccalaureates. 


Affliction- 


-Bereavement. 


Business Colleges. 


Cremation. 




Children's day. 


Death. 




Church and Education. 


Epitaphs. 




Class Poems. 


Funeral. 




Co-education. 


Funeral Customs. 


College. 


Funeral Prayers. 


College Evangelism. 


Funeral, Sub. Matter. 


College Graduates. 


Grave. 




College Entertainments. 


Life, Reflections on. 


College Presidents. 


Memoirs, ] 


[903. 


College Study of Religion. 


Memoirs, 


1904, etc. 


Colleges. 


Poems. 




Commencements. 


Sickness. 




Correspondence Schools. 


Tombs. 




Curriculum. 


Education : 




Degrees, Flonorary and Lit 


Addresses, 


Selected. 


erary. 


Alumni, 




Education. 



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Education, English. 

Education, German. 

Education, the ^'New." 

Education and ReUgion. 

Education — Other Countries. 

Educators. 

Endowments. 

Faculty. 

Fraternities. 

Illiteracy. 

Overcrowding. 

Schools, Colonial. 

Schools, Common. 



Schools, Elementary. 
Schools, Normal. 
Schools, Post-graduate. 
Schools, Private. 
Self-government. 
Student Life. 
Student Work. 
Teachers — Teaching. 
Theological Schools. 
Universities. 
University Extension. 
Women's Colleges. 
Y. M. C. A. 



Financial — Personal : 

The Envelope Cabinet Plan is well adapted to catalogue all 
of one's financial business. 
Attention. 

Bank, First National, 1 904. 
Bills, 1904. 
Clothes. 
Insurance. 
Notes. 
Receipts, 1904, etc. 

It will be as easy to observe perfect order in all accounts 
and with all papers as to cast these things together in miscellane- 
ous fashion, not to mention the subsequent confusion and loss 
that may follow carelessness. 

Fraternal Orders : 

To be scheduled as desired. 

Furnishings — Supplies : 

Envelope subjects of office and domestic requisites, gleaned 
from advertisements and catalogues. An envelope classification 



49 — 



of subject matter under this heading will give a valuable refer- 
ence collection. The initials of periodicals furnishing the clip- 
p ngs, with dates, should be written on each. 



General : 
Advertising. 
Aerial Navigation. 
Age. 

Agriculture. 
Amusements. 
Animal Life. 
Archaeology. 
Architecture. 
Astronomy. 
Athletics. 

Atmosphere — Climate. 
Automobile, etc. 
Avarice. 

Bankers — Banking. 
Banquets. 
Benevolence. 
Biology. 
Botany. 
Boys. 

Bridges — Tunnels. 
Builders — Buildings. 
Calamities. 
Carnivals. 
Century. 
Character. 
Chemistry. 
Children. 
Civilization. 
Commerce. 

4 



Commodities. 

Conscience. 

Cooking. 

Discoveries. 

Dress — Fashion. 

Edison. 

Electricity. 

Electric Railways. 

Eminent People. 

Emotions. 

Engines — Engineering. 

Entomology. 

Expositions (Industrial.) 

Fables. 

Freaks. 

Gems. 

Geology. 

Girls. 

Glass. 

Heredity. 

Heroism. 

Herpetology. 

Horticulture. 

Humorous. 

Ichthyology. 

Inaugurations — Coronations. 

Information — Inquiries. 

Irrigation. 

Law. 

Light. 



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Life (Human.) 

Locomotion. 

Longevity. 

Love. 

Lying. 

Man. 

Manufactures. 

Mechanics. 

Merchants. 

Metals — Minerals. 

Millionaires. 

Mining. 

Motors. 

Museums. 

Nature — Nat. Science. 

Navigation. 

Necrology. 

Numismatics. 

Ocean. 

Ornithology. 

Outings. 

Passions. 

Philanthropy. 

Physiology. 

Prehistoric. 

Printing. 

Race — Races of Men. 

Radium, etc. 

Railroads. 

Roads (Highways.) 

Royalty. 

Science. 

Seasons. 

Society. 



Statesman. 

Statesmen — Gladstone . 
Statesmen — Li Hung Chang. 
Statesmen — Webster. 
Success. 

Telegraph — Telephone. 
Telescope — Sci. Instruments. 
Textiles. 

Theater — Drama. 
Time. 
War. 

Year, Old and New. 
Young Men. 
Young People. 
Illustrations : 
Accident. 
Actors. 

Art — Lost Arts. 
Assassination. 
Children. 
Conscience. 
Courage. 
Death. 
Deception. 
Dying for Others. 
Effort. 
Error. 
Fame. 
Family. 
Habits. 
Happiness. 
Knowledge. 
Miscellaneous. 
Misery. 



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Mother. 

Mysteries. 

Opportunity. 

Parents. 

Retribution. 

Revelation. 

Salvation. 

Scientific. 

Servants. 

Sin. 

Slander. 

Supernatural. 

Virtue. 

Wonders. 
Insurance : 

Accident. 

Accident and Health. 

Agencies. 

Burglary. 

Fire. 

Health. 

Life. 

Life, Endowment. 

Ministerial. 
Invention : 

To be scheduled as desired. 
Investments : 

Developed according to sub- 
jects. 
Literature : 

Arnold. 

Authors. 

Authors, Stories of. 

Authorship. 



Autobiography. 

Autographs. 

*^Ben Hur." 

Biography. 

Book Agents. 

Bookmaking. 

Book Reviews. 

Books. 

Books, Children's. 

Books, Best. 

Books, Influence. 

Books, Value. 

Browning. 

Byron. 

Carlyle. 

Chaucer. 

Classics. 

Composition, Rules of. 

Comstock. 

** Connor, Ralph." 

Dante. 

Descartes. 

De Stael. 

Diaries. 

Dickens. 

Dictionaries. 

Drummond. 

Dumas. 

Editors. 

Eliot. 

Emerson. 

Encyclopedias. 

Esthetics. 

Fiction. 



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Fiction, Historical. 

Fiske. 

Folk Lore. 

French Academy. 

Genius, Literary. 

Goethe. 

Hawthorne. 

Historians. 

History. 

History, Current. 

Holmes. 

Homer. 

Hugo. 

Humor — Humorists . 

Jackson, Helen Hunt. 

Keats. 

Kipling. 

Lamb. 

Language. 

Language, French — ^Spanish. 

Language, German. 

Language, Greek. 

Language, Hebrew. 

Language, Latin. 

Language Study. 

Lanier. 

Laureates. 

Letter- writing. 

Lexicons. 

Library. 

Library — Libraries. 

Libraries, Circulating. 

Literary. 

Literary Compensation, 



Literary Criticism. 

Literary — Famous Writers. 

Literary Miscellany. 

Literary Study. 

Literature. 

Literature, Amer. 

Literature and Christianity. 

Literature, Comparative. 

Literature, English. 

Literature, French. 

Literature, German. 

Literature and Morals. 

Literature, Rare Prints. 

Literature, Univ. of Chicago. 

Lord. 

Lowell. 

Lyceum. 

Mabie. 

Martineau. 

Maxims, Mottoes, Sentiments. 

Maurice. 

Milton. 

Miscellaneous. 

Nordau. 

Periodicals. 

Plato. 

Poe. 

Poetry. 

Poetry, Composition. 

Poetry and Religion. 

Poets. 

Poets, American. 

Press, The. 

Press, Sunday. 



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Pronunciation. 

Proverbs, Sayings, 

Publishers. 

Quayle. 

Ranke. 

Reading. 

Reading Clubs. 

Reading — How to Read. 

Renaissance. 

Renan. 

Richter. 

Rossetti. 

Ruskin. 

Sarcasm. 

Schiller. 

Shakespeare. 

Slang. 

Spenser. 

Stead. 

Stevenson. 

Tennyson. 

Thackeray. 

Thoughts. 

Tolstoy. 

Virgil. 

Voltaire, etc. 

Verne. 

Vocabulary. 

Whittier. 

Whitman. 

Williams, Dwight. 

Wordsworth. 

Writing. 

Writing, Story. 



Zola. 
Marriage — Divorce : 
Ages, Respective. 
Anniversaries. 
Bachelors — Maids. 
Bride — Bridegroom. 
*' Bureaus." 
Ceremony. 
Certificates. 
Clothes. 

Correspondence. 
Courtship. 
Cupid. 

Curious Incidents. 
Curious Customs. 
Deception. 
Divorce. 
Elopement. 
Fees. 

Husbands. 
Invitations. 
Jealousy. 
Laws. 

Legal Marriage. 
Licenses ( Env. for each pas- 
torate. 
Literature of Marriage. 
Love and Love Letters. 
Love Stories. 
Marriage. 

Marriages of Famous People. 
Marriageable. 
Married Life. 
Probate Court. 



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Remarriage. 
Satire. 

Superstitions. 
Widowers — Widows. 
Wives. 
Medical Science: 

Addresses to Med. Graduates. 

Anatomy. 

Alcoholism — Cures. 

Anesthetics. 

Antitoxins. 

Appendicitis. 

Bacteria. 

Baldness. 

Baths. 

Birth. 

Blood. 

Brain Workers' Hygiene. 

Breathing. 

Burial. 

Camphor, etc. 

Cancer. 

Causes of Disease. 

Cheerfulness, as a Cure. 

Children — Diet and Hygiene. 

Children's Diseases. 

Clothing and Temperature. 

Colds, etc. 

Constipation. 

Diseases. 

Disinfectants. 

Drowning. 

Drinks. 



Drugs — Druggists. 

Dyspepsia. 

Edison. 

Electric Treatment. 

Epilepsy. 

Ear — Eye. 

Face. 

Family Remedies. 

Fasting. 

Fevers. 

Food. 

Fruits, Medical Value. 

General. 

Hands — Feet. 

Head. 

Head Cleaning. 

Health — Higher Phys. Life. 

Heart. 

Hemorrhage. 

Hiccoughs. 

Hints to Housekeepers. 

Hospitals. 

Hygiene. 

Imaginar}?- Troubles. 

Immunity. 

Influenza. 

Insanity, Treatment. 

Kidneys. 

Malaria. 

Massage. 

Meats. 

Medical Colleges. 

Medical Science. 



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Narcotics. 

Nervousness. 

Nose. 

Nurses — Nursing. 

Oils, Use of. 

Old Age. 

Paralysis. 

*' Patent" Medicines. 

Physical Culture. 

Physical Degeneration. 

Physical Types. 

Physicians. 

Pneumonia. 

Poisons and Antidotes. 

Position (Physical Health.) 

Prevention of Disease. 

Rabies. 

Rheumatism. 

Rubber Appliances. 

Sanitary Science. 

* * Schools ' ' of Medicine. 

Sex and Disease. 

Skin. 

Sleep. 

Suffering. 

Sunstroke. 

Surgery. 

Sweetmeats. 

Temperance. 

Throat. 

Tuberculosis. 

Typhoid. 

Vegetarianism. 



Water, Drinking and Cures. 

Women — Hygienic Reform. 
Methodism : 

A corresponding terminology 
can be developed readily for 
any denomination. 

**Amen" Corner. 

Anniversaries. 

Asbury. 

Benevolences (General). 

Bishop (Envelope for Each), 

Book Agents. 

Book Concern. 

Camp-meetings, etc. 

Catechism — Creed. 

Centennials. 

Children' s-day. 

Church. 

Church, Business Managment. 

Church Designs. 

Church Extension. 

Church Membership. 

Church, M. E. 

Church, M. E., South. 

Classes — Leaders. 

Coke. 

Conference, Annual. 

Conference, District. 

Conference, General. 

Conference, Judicial. 

Conference, Lay Electoral. 

Conference, Quarterly. 

Constitution. 



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Culture Guilds, etc. 

Current Notable Events. 

Deaconess Work. 

Dedications. 

Discipline. 

Districts. 

Education, Board of. 

Episcopacy. 

Episcopal Addresses. 

Ep worth League. 

Federation — Union. 

Finance. 

Freedmen' s Aid and So. Ed. 

** Homes." 

Hospitals. 

* * Institutional " Churches. 

Insurance. 

Itinerancy. 

Laymen. 

Laymen, Eminent. 

Methodism. 

Methodism, Australian. 

Methodism, Canadian. 

Methodism, German. 

Methodism, Growth. 

Methodism, Liberty in. 

Methodism and Missions. 

Methodism of New Eng. 

Methodism of New York. 

Methodism of Northwest. 

Methodism of Ohio. 

Methodism, Pioneer. 

Methodism, Rural. 

Methodism, Wesleyan. 



Methodist Schools. 
Missionary Society. 
Oxford. 
Pastors. 

Preachers, Eminent. 
Presidents and Governors. 
Presiding Elders. 
Probationers. 
Property, Church. 
Property, Parsonage. 
Stewards. 
S. S. Union. 
Superannuates. 
Supernumeraries. 
Tendencies. 
Trustees. 
Tract Society. 
Ways of Working. 
Wesley. 
Whitefield. 
W. F. M. S. 
W. H. M. S. 
Missions, 
Africa. 

Bible Society and Missions. 
Biography. 
Bishops for Missions. 
Bulgaria. 
China. 

Children, Heathen and Miss' y. 
Church and Missions. 
Collections. 
Conventions. 
Cuba and Porto Rico. 



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Current Interest. 

Education and Missions. 

Episcopal Administration. 

European Missions. 

** Expansion" Idea. 

Foreign Miss. Society. 

Germany. 

Governments and Missions. 

Hawaii. 

Heathen Conditions. 

Heroes — Heroines. 

Holy Spirit and Missions. 

Home Missions. 

** Illustrated ' ' Sermons, etc. 

Incidents of Mission Work. 

India. 

Island Missions. 

Italy. 

Japan. 

Korea. 

Law of Restitution. 

Literature of Missions. 

Madagascar. 

Malaysia. 

Maps. 

Martyrs. 

Medical Missions. 

Mexico. 

Mission Schools. 

Mission Study Classes. 

Missionaries. 

Missionaries, Current Year. 

Missionaries, Deceased. 

Missionaries on Furlough. 



Missionaries, and Polit. Influ- 
ence. 
Missionary Concerts. 
Missionary Life. 
Missionary Music. 
Missionary Sermon, Material. 
Missionary Support. 
Missionary Training. 
Missions. 
Missions, City. 
Missions, Criticism. 
Missions and Easter. 
Missions, Growth, Statistics. 
Missions, History. 
Missions, New Test. 
Missions and Prayer. 
Missions and Rom. Cath. Coun- 
tries. 



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'*New Departure.' 
*' Open Door" Movements. 
Other Missionary Societies. 
Pastors and Missions. 
Philippines. 
Program Suggestions. 
Progress of Christianity. 
Proportion — Home and For- 
eign. 
Reflex Influence. 
Self-support. 
South America. 
Special Objects. 
Student Volunteers. 
Thank-offerings . 
Women, Heathen. 



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Women and Missions. 
World-wide Christianity. 
Music : 
Anthems. 
Bible. 

Bible Instruments. 
Blind, The. 
Choir. 

Choirs, Boy, Vested. 
Church. 
Composers. 
Festivals. 
Harp. 
Humorous. 

Hymnals — Hymnology. 
Hymns, Favorite. 
Hymns as Literature. 
Hymns, Wesleyan. 
Instruments and Church. 
Liturgy. 
Masterpieces. 
Melodies. 
Melodies, Negro. 
Minstrels. 
Music. 

Music and Animals. 
Music, Rom. Cath. 
Music — Developments, Ori- 
gins. 
Music — Education, Ancient, 

Modern. 
Music, Future. 
Music, History. 
Music, Mission of. 



Music — Musicians. 
Music Myths. 
Music and Nature. 
Music as, and, Prophecy. 
Music and Religion. 
Music and Science. 
Music and Surgery. 
Music, Universities. 
Music and Women. 
Natural. 
Opera. 
Oratorio. 
Organ. 
Piano. 

Poetic Sentiments. 
' ' Ragtime. ' ' 
Russian. 
Singers. 

Singing, Incidents. 
Singing Schools. 
National : 
Alaska. 
America. 

America and Civilization. 
American Dependencies. 
American History. 
American Manhood. 
American Women. 
Americanisms. 
Ancient. 

Anglo-American. 
Arbitration. 
Arbor-day. 
Army. 



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Battle Cries of Nations. 

California. 

Census. 

Centennials. 

Chicago. 

Christianity and War. 

Civil Service. 

Cleveland, Ex-Pres. 

Colonies. 

Colorado. 

Congress — Parliament. 

Cuba. 

* * Daughters Amer . Rev. , " 

etc. 
Democracy. 
Democratic Party. 
Diplomacy — Diplomats. 
Encampments, G. A. R. 
Flag. 
Garfield. 
Grant. 

Growth of Nation. 
Harrison. 
Hayes. 

Illustrious Americans. 
Immigration. 
Inaugurations. 
Independence day. 
Indians. 
Lee. 
Lincoln. 

Mammoth Cave. 
Maryland. 
McKinley. 



Memorial day. 

Military Leaders. 

Money and Legislation. 

** Monroe Doctrine." 

Nation. 

Navy. 

Negro. 

New England. 

New York. 

Ohio. 

Panama Canal, etc. 

Patriotism. 

Peace. 

Pensions. 

Philippines. 

Pioneers. 

Political Economy. 

Political Parties. 

Politics. 

Postal Service. 

Presidential Campaigns. 

Presidents. 

Presidents' Families. 

Prohibition Party. 

Public Domain. 

Public Opinion. 

Puritans. 

Red Cross. 

Republic and Christianity. 

Republican Party. 

Roosevelt. 

Statesmen. 

Supreme Court. 

Tariff — Taxation. 



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Thanksgiving. 

Utah. 

War, Civil. 

War, Cost. 

War, Revolution. 

War, Span.-Amer. 

Wars. 

Wars and National Debts. 

Wars of World. 

Washington, Geo. 

Washington, D. C. 

Weather Bureau. 

White House. 

Women and War. 
Philosophy : 

Agnosticism. 

History of. 

Idealism. 

Mental Science. 

Moral Science. 

Pantheism. 

Psychology. 

Realism. 

And Religion. 

Theism. 
Prayer — Providence. 

Affliction, Philosophy. 

Prayer, Achievements. 

Prayer, Dedicatory. 

Prayer and Divination. 

Prayer and Fanaticism. 

Prayer, Hindrances. 

Prayer, Intelligent. 

Prayer, Meaning of. 



Prayer and Miracles. 
Prayer, Objects. 
Prayer, Philosophy of. 
Prayer and Providence. 
Prayer, Public. 
Prayers. 

Prayers, Scripture. 
Providence. 

Providence and Calamities. 
Providence and Death. 
Providence and History. 
Providence and Selfishness. 
Providence and Submission. 
Suffering, Discipline of. 
Suffering, Does God Suffer? 
Suffering, Mystery of. 
Tribulations. 
Preachers — Preaching : 
* ^Advanced Thought." 
Advertising and Eccles. Traps. 
Amateur Efforts. 
Authorship. 

Bible Revisions, Use of. 
Bishops (General). 
**Blue Monday." 
'* Bores." 
Call to Ministry. 
Chaplains. 

Children, and Church. 
Children of Ministers. 
Choir. 
Church. 

Church Calendar. 
Church Membership. 



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Clergy in Amer. Life. 

Courtesy, Ministerial. 

Creeds. 

Deacons. 

«'Dead Line." 

Defects. 

*'Den." 

"Doubles." 

Doubt. 

Education. 

Egotism. 

Elders. 

Eminent Preachers. 

Em. P. — Beecher. 

Em. P. — Brooks. 

Em. P.— Hall. 

Em. P. — Simpson. 

Em. P. — Talmage, etc. 

Environment. 

Equipment. 

Evangelism. 

Evangelism, City. 

Evangelists. 

Evolution. 

Exegesis. 

Ex-ministers. 

Failure. 

Fanaticism. 

Flattery. 

Gestures — Mannerisms. 

Fault-finding. 

Heresy. 

** Higher Criticism." 

Hints. 



Homiletic Publications. 

Homiletics. 

Humor in Preaching. 

Illustration. 

Innovation. 

** Installation." 

"Itinerants' " Clubs. 

Laziness — Work. 

Library. 

Meddlers. 

Methods. 

Ministerial Supply. 

Ministerial Support. 

Moody and His Work. 

Music. 

Oratory. 

Oratory, Ancient. 

Originality. 

Pastoral. 

Pastorates. 

Pastors. 

Pastors, Ass't. 

Plagarism. 

Politics. 

" Porcupines." 

Prayers (Pulpit.) 

Preacher — Pew. 

Preachers. 

Preachers, Eccentric. 

Preachers, Lay. 

Preachers' Meetings. 

Preachers Pioneer. 

Preachers, Young. 

Preaching. 



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Preaching, Manner of. 

Preaching, Pessimistic. 

Prejudices. 

Preparation. 

Priestcraft. 

Promptness — System. 

Problems. 

Prophetic Elements. 

Psychology. 

Pulpit. 

Reading and Study. 

Requisites. 

Sacrilege. 

Science and Theology. 

Seasons. 

Sermons (Selected.) 

Sermons, Delivery of. 

Sermons, * * Factory. ' ' 

Sermons, Illus. 

Sociology and Preachers. 

Speech, Correct. 

Stories of Ministers. 

Subject Matter. 

Success. 

Syllabus, How to Prepare. 

Temptations. 

Themes. 

** Tongues of Fire." 

** Tramps." 

Vacation. 

Vocal Culture. 

Wardrobe Effects. 

Wives of Ministers. 

Worship, Order of. 



Reforms — Sociology. 
Action Demanded. 
Abstinence. 
Addresses (Selected). 
Alcoholism. 
Altruism. 

** Amendment Campaigns." 
Anarchy. 
Asylums. 

Attitude of Polit. Parties. 
Anti-Saloon. 
Anti-Saloon League. 
Beall Law. 
Beer — Beer Drinking. 
Bellamy. 
Brown, John. 
Cannibalism. 
Capital and Labor. 
** Children's Homes." 
Children and Saloon. 
* * Christian ' ' Nations and 

Rum. 
Church and Labor. 
Church and Saloon. 
Cities. 

Cities and Saloons. 
City Conditions. 
Coal Strike and Socialism. 
Conventions, Temperance. 
Convict Labor. 
Convicts. • 

Co-operative Industry. 
Cost. 
Cost of Pub. Institutions, 



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Counterfeiting. 

Countries — Condi tions . 

Courage. 

Courts and Saloons. 

Crime — Criminals. 

Criminal Types. 

Degeneracy. 

** Dispensary " Plan. 

Dow (Neal). 

Dow Tax. 

Drunkenness. 

**Dry" Towns, etc. 

Economic Aspects. 

Effects of Drunkenness. 

Enforcement of Law. 

Enticements. 

Ethics of Saloon. 

Ethics of Temperance. 

Ethics of Sociology. 

Expedients. 

Family. 

Fisk, Gen. 

Foreign Capital. 

Gambling. 

George, Henry. 

Good Templars. 

Government and Saloons. 

Hard Times. 

Homes and Saloons. 

Indians and Drink. 

Islanders and Drink. 

Industrialism, Disturbance. 

Inheritance Tax. 

Insanity. 



Labor Problems. 

Labor Unions. 

Legislation. 

License and Tax. 

Liquor Arguments. 

Liquor Dealers. 

Liquor Organizations. 

Local Option. 

Lynching. 

McGlynn. 

Methods. 

Missions and Rum. 

Mob Rule. 

Moderate Drinking. 

'' Moonshine ' ' Whisky. 

Other Countries. 

Panics. 

Past Movements. 

Pauperism. 

People vs. Saloons. 

* ' Personal Liberty. ' ' 

Philanthrophy 

Phillips, Wendell. 

Physicians. 

Political Influence of Saloon. 

Poverty. 

Prison Congress. 

Prison-day. 

Prison Statistics. 

Prize Fighting. 

Problems. 

Progress. 

Prohibition. 

Prohibition by Corporations. 



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Prohibition Party. 

Prohibition States. 

Proportional Representation. 

** Protection " Laws. 

Referendum. 

Reforms — Reformers. 

Saloonists. 

Saloons and Calamities. 

Saloons and Labor. 

Satire. 

Schools and Saloons. 

Scripture Teaching. 

* ' Settlements, ' ' Social. 

Shame. 

Slums. 

'* Social Evil." 

Social Forces. 

Social Purity. 

Social Regeneration. 

Socialism, Progress of. 

Sociology. 

Sociology and Religion. 

Statistics. 

Strikes. 

Suicide. 

Tariff. 

Tenements. 

Tramps. 

Truth and Faith. 

Vice. 

Violence. 

Wealth, Use of. 

Willard, Frances. 

Wine Drinking. 



W. C. T. U. 

Woman's Work. 
Religion — Religions : 

Religion, Emotion in. 

Religion and Ethics. 

Religion of Great Men. 

Religion — Methods of Study. 

Religion — Mormonism . 

Religion, Paganism. 

Religions (Comparative). 

Religions — Buddhism. 

Religions — Confucianism. 

Religions — Fetichism. 

Religions — Hindu. 

Religions — Idolatrous. 

Religions — Mohammedanism. 

Religions — Origins of. 

Religions — Shinto. 

Religions — Sacred Books of. 
Sunday-School : 

Addresses (Selected). 

Administration. 

Anniversaries. 

Bible Study. 

Biography. 

Census Work. 

Class Instruction. 

Classes. 

Conventions (General). 

Conventions, Local. 

Conventions, State. 

Cradle Roll. 

Decision-day. 

Drawing. 



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Evangelism. 

Examinations. 

General. 

Graded Schools. 

Great Schools. 

Home Department. 

House Visitation. 

Institute Work. 

International. 

Lesson System. 

Libraries. 

Lyceum. 

Maps. 

Methods. 

Missionary Society (S. S.). 

Model Sunday-school. 

Music. 

**New" Sunday-school. 

Normal Training. 

Officers. 

Pastor and School. 

Primary Work. 

Programs. 

Public Welfare. 

Rally-day. 

Reading Courses. 

Reports. 

Reviews. 

Sessions. 

Sunday-school. 

Superintendents. 

Supplies. 

Teachers. 

Teachers' Meetings. 



Ways of Working. 
Travel — Vacation. 

California. 

Chicago. 

Equipment for. 

Europe. 

Florida. 

Guide Books. 

Orient. 

Palestine. 

Resorts, etc. 
Women : 

Ancient. 

Beautiful. 

Bible and Woman. 

Clubs. 

Conditions. 

Domestic Service. 

Famous. 

Fashion. 

Girls. 

Habits. 

Heroism. 

Home. 

Housekeeping. 

Hygienic Reform. 

** King's Daughters." 

Law and Woman. 

Literary Women. 

Man and Woman. 

Mothers. 

Mythology (Female). 

Nursery. 

Occupations. 



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Oriental. 


England. ^ 


Poets, Women. 


Europe. 


Premature Age. 


Explorations. 


Professions. 


France. 


Reformers. 


Geography. 


Sarcasm. 


Germany. 


Shopping. 


Greece. 


Stanton, Eliz. Cady. 


Haiti. 


Talent. 


Holland. 


Victoria. 


Iceland. 


Wives of Prominent Men. 


Ireland. 


Woman. 


Islands. 


Woman's ** Rights." 


Italy. 


Woman's Work. 


Japan. 


Women in Competition. 


Korea. 


Women, French. 


London. 


Women and the Ministry. 


Macedonia. 


Women and Religion. 


Mexico. 


Women and Science. 


New Zealand. 


World : 


Norway — Sweden. 


Africa. 


Oceania. 


Amazon. 


Panama. 


America, Central. 


Paris. 


America, South. 


Pompeii. 


Arctic — Antarctic. 


Rome. 


Asia. 


Russia. 


Australia. 


Siam. 


Austria. 


Scotland. 


Belgium. 


Spain. 


Bohemia. 


Switzerland. 


Canada. 


Turkey. 


China. _ 


Venezuela. 


Colombia. 


Universe. 


Constantinople. 


World. 


Egypt- 





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CONTENTS OF SPECIMEN ENVELOPES. 

Bible Division — ^^ Apostles y 

The Apostles in Art. 

McGiffert's Apostolic Age. 

Called to be an Apostle. 

James, Peter, and Thomas, or Jerusalem, Rome, and 
India. 

Disciples of Christ not Ignorant. 

The Apostolic and Post-Apostolic Times (Book Re- 
view). 

James, the Lord's Brother. 

Those Laymen of Palestine. 

Qualifications of Apostleship. 

Origin and Design of the Apostleship. 

Teaching of the Twelve Apostles. 

Literature Division — * * Shakespeare. ' ' 

Shakespeare's Men. 

The Character of Hamlet. 

William Shakespeare : Poet, Dramatist, and Man ( Book 

Review). 
** Hamlet "—A Character Sketch. 
The Growth of Shakespeare's Fame. 
Shakespeare's Doctrine of Sin. 
A New Edition of Shakespeare. 
Shakespeare Shown Up. 
An Ideal Shakespeare. 

The '*Eversley" Shakespeare (Pub. Announcement). 
Shakespeare's Cradle and School Satchel, etc. 



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ADVISORY. 

It would not be wise for the beginner to attempt 
an elaborate envelope classification. With his case, 
and envelopes in stock, let the cabinet grow accord- 
ing to the material. 
Cabinet Growth. One article of value on a subject hitherto un- 
scheduled in the cabinet is sufficient to justify the 
introduction of a new envelope in the system. 
Young ministers without files of periodicals might 
receive valuable gifts of such literature from news 
stands, newspaper offices, public libraries, or minis- 
terial friends. 

However, if they are wide awake as readers and 
indefatigable in purpose, cabinet wealth will soon ac- 
cumulate. A few dollars wiir suffice to begin cabinet 
operations, and the growth will be constant and 
rapid. 



THE READY SERMONIZER. 

The sermon -maker needs special workshop ar- 
rangements, and requisites. '' Confusion of thought' ' 
is overcome by orderly preparation for pulpit and 
platform work, and by proper record of the same. 

The subject must be selected, digested, outlined 
at least, and preserved. The abundant material, like 
crude ore, must pass through the process of organiza- 
tion in order to reach a logical and symmetrical form. 

1. THE STUDY-BIBLE. 

The interleaved Oxford edition is the best. Each The Lifetime Bible, 
alternate leaf is blank paper, with narrow ruling. 
Library literature touching any book of Scripture, 
authorship, chapter, paragraph, verse, or subject 
treated, can be noted, along with the reader's com- 
ments; but any substantial Teacher's Bible will an- 
swer. It should last a lifetime lor desk use and 
sermon -making. 

Other versions may be used for reading and study, 
but not for this purpose. The mechanic prefers the 
old, worn, familiar tool to the bright, new one, 
because he is familiar with it. So it is with the 
minister and his study Bible. 

The serial number of every sermon preparation 

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— 70 — 

should be marked opposite the Scripture text used. 
The minister's Bible is rarely needed in the pulpit. 
There, the large Bible, placed for the purpose, is suffi- 
cient, and much more becoming and impressive. 

2. THE PERPETUAL SERMON RECORD BOOK. 
Pardon will be granted the writer for using his 
own designs in illustration. The page size of this 
book is 5x8^ inches, and contains nearly two 
hundred pages. It is bound in flexible leather, round 
corners, red edges, gilt side-stamp, and the paper 
used is twenty-four-pound Charter Bond. The book 
contains five different, yet essential, forms of record, 
as follows : 

L Consecutive Sermon Record. Nos. 1-600. 
II. Funeral Sermons and Addresses. Nos. 601- 
800. 

III. Record of Essays, Lectures, and Addresses. 

Nos. 801—1000. 

IV. Sermons Classified by Subjects. 

V. Sermons Classified by Scripture Books. 
Permanent Ser- The sermon number should be permanent, and 
mon Numbers, ^-j^^ text in the study Bible bracketed with the same 
number. Any number between one and six hundred 
indicates the regular sermon series; between six 
hundred and one and eight hundred^ funeral sermons 
and addresses; and from eight hundred and one to 
one thousand, essays, lectures, and addresses. 



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If, in after years, these number divisions are ex- 
hausted, it will be better to use a second book with 
the same divisions in a ^^ B " series — as B i, B 60 1, 
B 801, etc. In this way the same numerals may 
always represent the same class. 

Many have made the mistake of changing sermon 
numbers to correspond with their order of use in a 
later parish, but the permanent sermon record should 
be preserved inviolate. 

The minister will utilize his pastoral record book 
to preserve the order in which sermon preparations 
are used in a given place, and prefix to each entry 
the serial number of the sermon, as recorded in the 
Perpetual Sermoii Record. As the Sermon Record ?K\^^t%, Divl- 
provides for twenty-five entries to each double page, ^'^"s* ^"^ ^^^^• 
the sermons should be kept in packages of twenty- 
five, and divisions of one hundred, in the sermon 
case. This sermon record can be made as valuable 
to the minister who does not write his sermons or pre- 
pare elaborate briefs, as to one of the opposite class. 

3. SERMON PAPER AND ENVELOPES. 

Whether the minister outlines his sermons or 
writes them in full, he should adopt a uniform size Standard Requi- 
and style of paper, to which he will become as ^'*^^' 
accustomed as to his Bible. These preparations 
are to be preserved until superseded by revisions. 

Neatness is not costly. Quoting the example of 



— 72 — 

Phillips Brooks, it is related that he always wrote 
after a certain fashion, and on paper the size of which 
never varied. Even his note -books were made to 
order in quantities. Attempting to work without 
these requisites he was confused. One can do his 
best in his own familiar room, where everything he 
sees and touches and uses seems sympathetic. 
Sermon Paper. In the Ready Sermonizer Series the standard size 
is a 4x 8 inch page, with one -fourth inch ruling, and 
paper of extra finish. The double page cover, with 
the inner side ruled, will often suffice for the outline, 
but as many page-slips as are needed can be added. 

On the first page of cover, under printed heads 
with ruled space, are written the number of sermon, 
text, subject, designation of Scripture lessons and 
hymns, places used and dates, with references to lit- 
erature consulted in preparing the sermon. 

The authorized version of the text can be used on 
the title-page, and the R. V. at the head of the ser- 
mon within. A larger size sermon page is 6x9 
inches, ^ inch ruled. The smaller size is 3 J^ x 7 
inches. Other sizes are preferred by some, and 
tastes vary as to ruling, But for any size, ruled or 
unruled, the double page cover, with printed head- 
ings and rulings, should be used for the essential 
notations of record. 
Sermon Envelope. A sermon envelope, open end, upon which the 
sermon number appears, together with the text, sub- 



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ject, and times and places used, is provided as a 
suitable and convenient receptacle for the sermon 
preparation. Its headings and rulings are printed. 
But why all this trouble ? To prevent trouble and 
vexation of spirit. Those sermons are incomplete. 
They demand successive revisions. 

The growing minister ought to have his entire 
outfit of sermon preparations within easy reach. He 
ought to find any sermon he has in a minute. With 
his sermons indexed and at hand, there can be slipped 
into the sermon envelopes, from time to time, valu- 
able notes from current reading and thinking, and 
new information and illustrations. 

One by one these sermons will be enriched by 
this mental fertilizer, and when the opportune time 
comes the work of revision will be swift and pleasant. 

The same method is adapted to the preparation New Sermons, 
of new sermons. Take a new envelope and mark it 
with the consecutive number to which it is entitled, 
and begin the filling process. Five, ten, or any 
number may be planted and have their growth started, 
and they will be ready for use weeks or months later 
if properly cultivated. 

Funeral sermons, or addresses, and specials in the 
third division, are susceptible to similar treatment. 
When the anniversaries and ministerial meetings occur, 
the systematic minister will be ready with his best. 

Another reason : The average minister needs to 



— 74 — 

guard against repetition in his discourses. A splendid 
thought or story wears out. The speaker may be un- 
conscious of his fault, but the people note it. 
Unconscious The Ready Sermonizer outfit, and the entire plan 

'^^P^^'*'^" outlined in these pages, prevent the possibility of 

Impossible. . ^•^- r u ^ • ^ - 

*^ unconscious repetition, lor whenever any material is 

used, of whatever character, and wherever found, it 
is marked. If a clipping, it is taken from the cabinet 
receptacle and placed with the sermon preparation. 
If but one part or sentence of an article is used, that 
part is marked with the serial number and bracketed, 
and remains in its place. If ^ book, mark the page 
or paragraph used, etc. If literary material recorded 
in the general subject-book be used, the line of entry 
should be canceled and marked with the serial num- 
ber of the preparation which absorbed it. 

It is safe to say that no one who diligently under- 
takes this systematic equipment in one or all of its 
parts is likely to give it up. Time and labor involved 
in method are small compared with the gain. Method 
means no lost mental acquisition, and no threadbare 
and obsolete productions, for method means progress 
as well as order. 

UTILITY ILLUSTP^TED. 

Ser. No. 27. Phil, i, 27. 
Example of Sermon This sermon was prepared in '96. The envelope 
Wealth, y^^ contained the original outline. When that chap- 



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ter was read years later it seemed full of inspiration. 
Opposite the twenty-seventh verse was found ^^No. 
27." Reference to the envelope in the sermon cab- 
inet showed a rich mine of accumulations. Slips 
with original thoughts, exegetical excerpts, illustra- 
tions, etc., had been dropped in from time to time 
out of current reading and thinking. Then, in the 
** Illustrations, " cabinet division, something more, 
and in the Bible Cabinet (^^ Philippians" envelope) 
another addition to the wealth of the subject, and 
finally in the ^'Subject Record" suitable reference 
to library works. Is it surprising that the half was 
not told in the original sermon? 

Did the reader ever prepare a sermon from a 
certain text, forgetting that he had once used it? 
Quite likely. But this is an impossible experience 
for one who has his perpetual sermon record, and his 
serial number marked at the text. 

What a pity ministers discard sermons, and de- Save Poor Ser- 
stroy them, because they are poor in quality. Absorb '"ons. 
them into better preparations before the first outline 
or manuscript is annihilated. It is better not to con- , 

fess that the subject can not be mastered. Perse- 
verence will win ! 



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SERMONS CLASSIFIED BY SCRIPTURE BOOKS. 



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Thou know est not what. 



UTILIZING LITERARY WEALTH. 

The " Study." Surrounded by his library, and cabinet cases, 
and sermonizer equipment, the owner is seated at 
his plain or roller-top desk. In this desk are 
drawers for stationery and office requisites, such as 
labels, rubber bands, paper fasteners, etc. 

At hand are inks, pad calendar, paste, paper- 
weights, shears, metal edge ruler, paper knife, pens, 
pencils, and perhaps a card index of membership. 
At the side of his desk is the ever-needed unabridged 
dictionary. 
Absolute Monarch. The ^^ study" is the minister's own, whether in 
the church, garret, or back of the parlor. It may be 
plain and small, but is well heated, lighted, and ven- 
tilated. He is absolute monarch of the possessions 
there. He sets for himself heavy tasks, and his in- 
animate servants respond to his will. He works by 
a schedule. 
Daily Schedule. After his correspondence for the day is dispatched, 
his reading hour comes, and if the book is his own 
he pencil marks the pregnant sentences as he reads, 
and, if of particular value, he makes an entry in his 
subject record. His diacritical marginal signs — 

78 



— 79 — 

!, ?, |, II — indicate astonishment, questioning, value. 
If the book is too fine to mark (which is a misfor- 
tune), his ^^ record" will suffice. 

EMINENT EXAMPLES OF CLERICAL SYSTEM. 

Ten years ago the Homiktic Review reported Wilberforce. 
that when the great Bishop Wilberforce died, it was 
found that his library contained hundreds of volumes 
of index books. * ' He had commenced, even before 
his ordination, to collect, tabulate, and index inci- 
dents, facts," and literary miscellany. Dr. J. W. 
Mendenhall, said editorially in the Methodist Review 
of July, 1892, that " there are times when the mind 
is uncommonly productive; thoughts, even one's 
best thoughts, often unbidden and unexpected, at Transient Thought 
these favorable moments, troop through the mind ^'S'^^''^* 
with great rapidity. They come, but they do not 
stay, . . . for the want of something on which 
to light. Ever after they refuse to return because 
proper respect was not paid them at the time of their 
visit. ' ' 

He also cites the example of Lord Bacon, among 
whose manuscripts were found many papers entitled Lord Bacon. 
'' Sudden thoughts set down for use." 

The similar habits of M. Durand, Handel, Pope, 
and others, are noted. Elsewhere he discusses the 
*' Saving Instinct," as follows : 

'^We have in mind not the saving of money, but 



— 8o — 

of sermonic materials. This instinct will lead the 
preacher to place no small value on every sort of in- 
formation. If he is ever tempted to say of some- 
thing which only slightly strikes his fancy, ' This 
does not please me much, and I do not see where or 
how I can use it, I will let it pass or throw it away,' 
his saving instinct will earnestly and instantly plead 
for its preservation ; and as a rule, he will do well to 
heed the promptings of that instinct. 

^^ Doubtless this accumulative instinct, if culti- 
vated, will lead on to the conviction that every kind 
of knowledge, even the odds and ends, the merest 
shreds of information, will come in play some time 
or other. 

' ' There is a suggestive saying which reads thus : 
' It is an evidence of blindness when a man can see 
nothing unless it glitters.' The preacher should be 
like the experienced gold-digger, who takes the 
smallest nuggets, and is not fool enough to throw 
them away because he hopes anon to find lumps of 
larger size. Or he should be like the skillful gar- 
dener, who saves ^ every slip and seed and peach- 
stone. ' 
Lao Tsze. ^^ ^ The sage rejects nothing,' says Lao Tsze. * I 
go to the woods after game,' says a writer of dis- 
tinction, ^ but if the game is not there, I get nuts, if 
there are no nuts, I gather flowers or leaves ; if these 
fail I get woodcraft of some sort, or, by grace of 



— 8i — 

Heaven, a thought. I will not be of those who find that 
the road is only good to leave behind them. ' There 
is, too, a household maxim which is illustrative of this 
thought ; it reads, ' Keep a thing three years and 
you will find a use for it.* 

* * Samuel Butler has put much of thought, many Samuel Butler. 
precepts, similitudes, allusions, inferences, and the 
like, into his ' Hudibras;' but this collection origin- 
ally was made in a commonplace book which was 
years in compiling. 

*^The facts out of which Guizot compiled hisOuizot. 
^ Spanish History ' were gathered from various 
sources, and twenty years intervened from the time 
his first notes were made to the date of its publica- 
tion. Some of the best productions of Emerson Emerson, 
were similarly composed. 

'' It may be said that no one can estimate of how 
great value, some day, will be the accumulations for 
which at the outset there seems to be no use. The 
best sermons of our best preachers are full of sug- 
gestive and helpful thoughts, and are growths, not 
flashes, of original inspiration." 

In a discussion of * * The Preacher and His Bishop Hurst. 
Books, ' ' by the late Bishop John F. Hurst, he said : 
^' Some books need to be read directly through, but 
these do not commonly belong to the preacher's 
working library. He must study by themes, and 
gather by his indexeS;, tables of contents^ and his own 
6 



— 82 — 

groupings of volumes. He thus amasses rich material 
for original development. His work will then be- 
come a complete organism, like a fragrant plant, or 
a sturdy oak. ... 

' ' We have seen scores of men who had excellent 
libraries, and yet did not know where to find the 
matter they needed. They have even asked us for 
certain information which they had at their own 
elbow, and which had for years been dusty on their 
shelves. Must a man read a book through to know 
what is in it ? Not at all, no more than now, since 
the marvel of the spectrum analysis, he must go to 
Mars to know what its metals are. We have often been 
asked if we had ever read our books *all through.* 
^ No, and we never intend or hope to do 
it. ' The art of placing oitr hand upon just what we 
want, of finding it just as easily as a geologist knows 
where to detect a coal deposit, is a rare one, but it 
can be acquired, and the sooner the better. 

^^ With our books it is as with our opportunities 
— we often know but little of them, and how to 
use them, and consult them, and make them good 
servants, until we are about ready to part company. ' * 
Missionary Gulick, in his book, ^ ^ Evolution of 
the Japanese, ' ' page 194, says : ^' For the transactions 
of daily life we have resorted to the constant use of 
pen and note-book and typewriter, by these devices 
saving time and strength for other things. ' ' 



S3- 



SUBJECT DEVELOPMENT. 

A subject is easily grown if put under proper proc- Special Studies. 
ess. One can make a specialty of a few favorite 
studies, as music, life, or language. The envelope 
marked for the general subject can be followed by as 
many subhead envelopes as are desired, or as the sub- 
ject matter at hand may justify. 

After a few years of faithful treatment it will be 
surprising what a wealth and variety of matter has 
accumulated, ready for immediate digestion. 

Now and then a country, as Colombia, Korea, New Subjects of 
and Macedonia, comes into prominence, and in the •'"Portance. 
^* World Series" deserves a special envelope. Or, 
some great discovery makes a hitherto obscure or un- 
known quantity prolific in its special literature, as 
*^ Radium." 

A workable system must have such flexibility that 
developments of knowledge and new enterprises can 
find a place for record. This is the prominent fea- 
ture of the envelope clerical cabinet. Simplicity^ 
elasticity^ and utility are its characteristics. 

ILLUSTRATIONS. 

The anecdote is the simplest and lowest form of 
illustration, and has its legitimate but limited place 
in public discourse. 

The Master used nature, life, parable, trades, Christ's Example. 



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agriculture, and the various facts which might be 
likened to the kingdom of heaven. 

* * Illustrations ' ' are worthy of separate classifica- 
tion in one of the clerical cabinet divisions. But the 
whole cabinet possesses great illustrative power. 
The Cabinet lllus- For instance, in the L. D. of 12-5-03, page 177, 
trative Through- a^ppeg^j.g(j an article on ^^ Absorption of Odors by- 
Grapes," — belonging of course to the subject, 
^'Horticulture" — that furnishes a rare analogy in 
the law of association ; that is, impurity by evil 
influences. 
" Literary Bu- Quite a business has been established in the 
reaus. United States, known as ' ' Literary Bureaus of infor- 
mation, ' ' and ' ' Press-clippings Bureaus, ' ' for the 
purpose of furnishing patrons with all that is 
printed in periodical literature upon any given sub- 
" Homiletic Fac- ject, and even '^ sermon factories" flourish, while 
tories." < ^Anecdote Syndicates ' ' are old already. 

Timely is an article by Professor R. T. Steven- 
son, found in a denominational review a few years 
since, the theme being '^ The Permanent and Pro- 
gressive in Homiletics." 
Truth for Instant From one paragraph we quote the following : 
Use. a "fhe jxian in the pulpit holds more truth for instant 
use than belongs to any other profession. 
It is a woeful waste of hard-earned cash to invest it in 
any sort of ' homiletic helps !' The mental independ- 
ency which wastes no time in unshelving dusty 



-85- 

illustrations is one with that originality which spurns 
the offer of an unchanging homiletic with as much 
pride, and far more sense, than Johnson showed 
when he hurled from his door at Pembroke the shoes 
some friend had laid there for the indigent scholar/' 
This is iconoclastic, refreshingly so. 

VALUE OF ADVERTISEMENTS. 

The one who passes by this fertile field will miss 
many valuable suggestions. 

There is rare art in that division of literature, and A Rare Art. 
even the cartoonist may become the minister's friend. 

Some of the richest ' ' finds ' ' are in the advertis- 
ing columns of current periodical literature. If not 
wanted for the ^ * Furnishings and Supplies'' cabinet 
division, they can be deposited with companionable 
subjects elsewhere. In a recent fugitive paragraph 
the writer says : History, personal and national, may 
be read in advertisements, as in the following from a 
Pretoria paper: ^^ ^To Let: Ex-President Krueger's 
late residence ; a few nicely furnished bedrooms with 
board, ' ' ' etc. ^ ' Advertising in the clouds ' ' is now 
introduced. 

Stray facts, customs, and bits of science are used Advertisement 
to adorn the tales of business attractions, and, while S*"^'^^' 
the minister may not indulge in advertising devices 
of gross form he may learn how to use printer's ink 



— S6 — 

more effectually, along with other profit resulting 
from advertisement studies. 

LIBRARY REVISION. 

The promise was made not to discuss the question 
Library Lumber, of selections for the library, but it may be well to 
think of accumulated library ^ ^ lumber. ' ' 

An occasional riddance of obsolete volumes is 
commendable. These can be sold to second-hand 
dealers, given away, or exchanged. This process re- 
duces the size, but increases the quality. The value 
of a library is not determined by its weight anyhow. 
Shelves filled with ^ ' sets ' ' and ^ ^ series ' ' of volumes 
look well. Old encyclopedias are of far less value 
than the envelope cabinet, which is brought down to 
date. The Bible cabinet division is of far more 
worth than musty commentaries. 

So the young minister need not despair. Let 
him get all the helpful books he can, and put them 
under the subject record system ; but let him not 
mourn because his library acreage is not quite so great 
as that of another. 

BOOK REVIEWS. 

Notations. Every book read, but not owned, should have its 
essentials preserved in a composition record, of con- 
venient size to be inclosed in the envelope cabinet. 



— 87 — 

Upon the cover of the record should be written the 

title of the book, name of author, publisher, date of 

issue and of reading. It is wise to preserve a page 

or two of the record for the vocabulary of the book. The Vocabulary. 

Here technical and new words may be noted, studied, 

pronounced, and defined. 

With the book opened for reading, and the note- 
book for writing, one is ready for the message. It 
soon becomes easy to read and write at almost the 
same time. 

Chapter heads and divisions are recorded, and the The Gist of the 
gist of the paragraphs either in quotation or substance Watter. 
as intuition dictates. The paging of the book should 
be noted in brackets in the record. The reader's own 
thoughts induced by the study can be jotted down in 
parenthesis. Sometimes a train of thought is started 
in sermonic direction. If it would enrich some prep- A Train of 
aration already in the sermon cabinet, it is wise to T''<^"9''*' 
turn aside, commit the outline to paper, and drop it 
in the sermon envelope. 

If a new subject is showing development, a new 
envelope from the sermon stationery box should be 
drawn to receive the notes. 

If the sermonic color does not show, the subject 
hue may, and the thoughts noted may find appropri- 
ate place in the cabinet. 

When the reading and review of the book are 
completed, the record, inclosed in cabinet envelope. 



— SS — 

properly marked, belongs to the ^^ Literary'' divi- 
sion — ^6?ok Review pocket, in its alphabetical place. 
Later, these * ' reviews ' ' may be dissected easily 
(being written on only one side of the page), and 
the parts distributed according to the subject head- 
ings, care being taken that each part bears the 
author's name, and title of book. 



NOTE-BOOKS. 

Scrap-books are obsolete. Filing systems are 
current. Index rerums supplement both cabinet and 
library system. Note-books serve a useful, though 
transient purpose. They meet the minister's need 
wherever he may be. His memorandum volume is 
his miniature appliance for redeeming the tiine. He 
learns to be as careful of his thoughts as of his charac- 
ter. Facts are too precious to lose. 

In casual reading outside his own possessions, Hoarding for Use. 
striking sentences can be transferred to his own page 
and origmal thoughts jotted, but all entries should be 
under appropriate headings. 

In every case the author's name, or the authority, 
should be stated, together with date. 

The note-book method is followed by students in 
schools and colleges, and by its use are preserved the 
essentials of all studies, investigations, and experi- 
ments. Why it should be discarded afterward in 
study and work and obligation in the mental realm is 
an unanswered query. 

Rapid writing should be practiced for such nota- Original Sfiort- 
tions, and abbreviations cultivated, for few ministers ''^"^• 
have mastered stenography. 

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One readily learns to employ govt, for govern- 
ment, bee. for because, bet. for between; ace, phi., 
soc, Chris' y, and the., for according, philosophy, 
sociology, Christianity, and theology. The orthog- 
raphy authorized by the Philological Society is 
relevant. 

A memorandum -book, 4x6, quadrille ruled, an- 
swers the purpose. Some would prefer a thumb in- 
dex running through the book. That is not essential. 
The index pages of the ^^ Pocket Arsenal" should 
contain the general subjects for entries. Such small 
books are rarely paged by the printer. So the user 
will do that with his pencil in five minutes, number- 
ing the right hand pages i, 3, 5, 7, 9, etc. 
The Loose Leaf. The very best book for the purpose is the loose- 
leaf style, made with thumb index, and quadrille ruled 
paper. The cover and index will last for years, and 
loose leaves ready for use can be purchased with the 
book at small additional cost. 
Cancel as Used. When an entry is used in any preparation, it is 
essential that a line be drawn across it, with the 
number of the preparation that absorbed the state- 
ment, illustration, or fact. 

But a few facts under each head are needed for 
emergency use, and the contents should be kept re- 
duced by proper distribution in the envelope cabinet 
from time to time. 



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VAGRANT WEALTH. 

Ofttimes a sentence in an advertisement or an- 
nouncement, or some fact in the ' ' Odds and Ends ' ' 
column, can be seized and imprisoned under in-' 
definite sentence for graphic use to-morrow or next 
year. Otherwise these stray bits never may be seen 
again. 

The most that speakers need, on the material Only Facts are 
side, are facts. With these, individual use will de- Needed, 
velop originality, and the discourse will not be tame. 
So often we are short on facts and the subject is un- 
mastered. 

One can do his own reasoning and make his own 
deductions if he is crowded with facts. We have the 
long prayer, and the long sermon, sometimes, because 
it takes a long time to tell what we do not have in 
mind. This justifies the observation of the verger of 
St. Mary's, Oxford, on being congratulated by his 
rector for his constant attendance to duty : * ' Yes, I 
have heard every sermon that has been preached from 
this pulpit for fifty ye^rs ; and, thank God, I am a 
Christian still.'* 



92 — 



POCKET ARSENAL. 

INDEX PAGES. 



Amusements — Athletics. 


God. 


Art. 


Heroism. 


Astronomy. 


Holidays, Legal. 


Benevolences. 


Holy Spirit. 


Bible. 


Hospital. 


Brotherhoods. 


Humorous. 


Calamities. 


Illustration. 


Children. 


Immortality. 


Christ. 


Industrialism. 


Christianity 


International. 


Christians. 


Invention. 


Christmas. 


Language. 


City. 


Law. 


Crime. 


Life — Death. 


Church. 


Literature. 


Church Calendar. 


Man. 


Denomination (Our). 


Marriage. 


Devotion. 


Medical Science. 


Doctrine. 


Mind. 


Easter. 


Miracle. 


Education. 


Miscellaneous. 


Electricity, etc. 


Missions. 


Em. People. 


Music. 


Experience. 


National. 


Expression. 


Nature. 


Evangelism. 


Opportunity. 


Faith. 


Parable. 


Family. 


Passions. 


Fraternal Orders. 


Philosophy. 



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Politics. 


Sin. 


Prayer — Providence. 


Sociology. 


Preaching, etc. 


Spiritual. 


Program Suggestions. 


S. School. 


Prophecy. 


Temperance. 


Psychology. 


Thanksgiving. 


Railroads. 


Theater, etc. 


Religion. 


Theology. 


Reports, Suggestions. 


Thoughts. 


Righteousness. 


Tithing, etc. 


Royalty. 


Truth. 


Sabbath. 


Vocabulary. 


Sacrament 


Warning. 


Science. 


Woman. 


Seasons. 


Wonders. 


Sentiments. 


Worship. 


Sermon Suggestions. 





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PAGE OF POCKET ARSENAL. 



Faith. P- 44 

** F., the parent of virtue," Hib. Jour. 10-12-03. 

(Fritzsche) p. 84. 

**Our evangelical faith has its last foundations (refuge) 
in the historic Jesus Christ." L. D., 2-21-03, P* 271. 

**A pessimist is a man who has the choice between two 
evils and takes both." 

**F. submits itself to the gracious will of God as re- 
vealed in Christ." 

Jas. Drummond, ** Right, of God." 

Hib. Jour., 1-03. 

**Relig. F. means always belief in a miracle." 

Haeckel's **The Rid. of Univ." 



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VEST POCKET YEAR-BOOK. 

( Size 2j^ X5.) 

One's personal business needs closest attention, 
as some of us have learned by sad experience. Proper 
direction at the start is invaluable. Correction after- 
ward is imperative. Memory should not be trusted. 
Notation is the only safe and comfortable practice. 



INDEX 

PAGE 

Addresses, .... 3 
House Supplies, . .10 

Dates, 40 

Financial Forecast, . 50 

Insurance, . . . . 75 
Scheduled Expenses, 
etc., . . ! . . 78 



ig04^ Finaiicial Forecast. ^- 5° 

Estimates for Year. 

Barber, $25 

House, 500 

Clothes, 100 

Debts, 100 

Insurance, 100 

Laundry, 25 

Medicine, 5*^ 

Stationery, Books, etc., .... 50 

Support of Church, 50 

Vacation, 5^ 

^1,050 

Income Esti77iated. 

Salary, ^1,000 

Perquisites, 100 

Other Sources, 100 

^1,200 



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Following the page reserved for the yearly fore- 
cast should be two pages for each month : 



January, 




January, 






Probable Resources. 


PAID. 


Obligations. 




PAID. 


I. Salary, . . . $85 




I. To wife, . . 


. ^10 




12. Other Income, 15 




8. Insurance, . 


• 25 








12. Account, etc., 


. 20 




;gioo 











The daily expense account may be kept on pages 
designated for each month, with each item and amount 
specified, and at the close of each month a final page 
gives the summary of each general item as scheduled 
in the index. 

At the close of the year the monthly summaries of 
the various index items are completed and compared 
with the yearly forecast. Then the year-book is filed, 
and a new one started. 

This, with the bank book and envelope of receipts 
in the filing cabinet, will complete the record and 
prevent much worry and trouble. 



97 



MINISTERS' READING COURSES. 

The incentive to reading and study by the Club 
plan is most helpful. Wherever tried in good faith 
and by a rigid observance of the rules established, 
the benefits appear. The following is a three -year- 
old plan in actual operation : 

(Pasted on outside of Front Cover.) 

DISTRICT READING CLUB— 1904. 
North Division. 



Members, and Order of Circulation. Books Assigned, January. 

T. G. Dickinson, London, I, Principles of S. School, 

Burt on- Matthews, 

T. G. Wakefield, Lafayette, 2, Studies of the Soul, . Brierly, 

W. S. Fisher, W. Jefferson, 3, Things Fundamental, 

Jefferson, 

G. M. Hughes, Lilly 

Chapel, 4, Literary Criticism, Winchester, 

R. T. Stimmel, Hilliard, . 5, Moral Sys. of Shakespeare, 

Moulton. 

N. A. Palmer, Plain City, . 6, The One Woman, . . Dixon, 

J. F. Steele, Milford Center, 7, Evolution of the Japanese, 

Gulick, 

W. L. Alexander, Wester- 

ville, 8, Revelation of The Holy Spirit, 

Welldon, 

^TT ^1 • ^ f Peril of the Home, . . . Riis, 

J. I. Tyler, Worthington, . 9, { what is Religion, . . Tolstoi. 

T. H. Housel, Lewis Center, lo. The Work of Wall Street, 

Pratt, 

A. M. Mann, Delaware, . 1 1, The Turk-Ix)st Provinces, 

Curtis, 

T. M. Ricketts, Jerome, . 12, Miracles of Unbelief, Ballard. 

7 



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RULES—READ CAREFULLY EACH MONTH. 

1 . Cover on book must not be removed. 

2. No marking or defacing of the book. 

3. On first Monday of each month every member of the 
Club will forward his book, prepaid, to the next reader in the 
list, whether he has read it or not. 

4. However the book may be forwarded, by mail or other- 
wise, the sender will notify the person to whom sent when and 
how the book was forwarded. 

5. The success of the Club depends upon \he fidelity of the 
members in forwarding the books. 

6. Any one who fails to receive his book in due time should 
notify the Presiding Elder at once. 

Suggestions. 

a. Each member is urged to include the Review in his 
reading. 

b. By note-book methods make a synopsis of each book 
read, and date of reading, with terse quotations and thoughts 
suggested, and always carry these notes to the Club meeting. 

Monday District Meetings. 

April J I. Reading Club Meeting, Colu7nbus. 

I. " Macbeth, " Theologically Considered. Steele. I5min. 

II. Review : Principles and Ideals of the S. School, Simms. 
15 min. 

III. Review ; Revelation of the Holy Spirit. Alexander. 
20 min. 

' IV. Parliamentary Drill. 

Debate — Should the Time Limit be Restored? 

f Affirmative — Wakefield, Mann. Eight min. each. 

\ Negative — Fisher, Housel. Eight min. each. Gen- 
eral discussion, and vote, after exhausting Parliamentary tactics. 
Whole time, 80 min. 

September ^. Reading Club, Columbus. 

I. Analysis of Browning's **Saul." Stafford. 15 min. 

II. A Study : What is Religion ? — Tolstoi. Walter. 15 min. 

III. Summary : Things Fundamental. Sayre. 20 min. 



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IV. Some best things in the eight books read. Ricketts, 
Stimmel, Palmer, Shirer, Prior, Mitchell. 

V. Mental treasures utilized in Preaching. Smiley. I5min. 
November 7, io—j:jo d* clock. Colufnbus. 

I. The Clerical Work of the Pastor. Dick. 15 min. 

II. Review: Moral System of Shakespeare. Dickinson. 
20 min. 

III. Ethics of * ' Romola. ' ' Fisher. 20 min. 

IV. Revelation of ^' The One Woman." Patterson. 15 min. 

V. Interpretation; Matthew xiii, 52. (R. V.) Tyler. 
15 min. 

N. B. These outline programs are given that the iD.embers 
or the Reading Club may be fully prepared in advance to con- 
tribute to the success of the meetings. 
"^^^For Supplemental Monthly Readings see slip inside of cover, 

(Pasted on inner side of Front Cover.) 

SUPPLEMENTAL. 

REQUIRED MONTHLY READINGS DISTRICT READ- 
ING CLUB, 1904. 

JANUA.RY — *< Macbeth," Shakespeare, 

February — **Saul," Browning. 

March — **The Holy Grail," Tennyson. 

April — ** David Copperfield," Dickens. 

May — *<The Scarlet Letter," Hawthorne. 

June- — Essays : ' * Compensation, " * * Spiritual Laws, ' ' Emerson. 

July — ** Sartor Resartus," Carlyle. 

August — ** Romola," George Eliot. 

September — ** Lady of the Lake," Scott. 

October — **Lalla Rookh," , Moore, 

November — ** Evangeline," Longfellow. 

December — Apocrypha ; * * Ecclesiasticus, " * * Maccabees. ' ' 

Any of these classics can be purchased of Harriman in 
editions ranging from 25 cents up. He also has cheap editions 
of the Apocrypha. 

L»fC. 



' lOO 

Two Methods. A Reading Club of twelve members is the most 
convenient arrangement. It is the book-a-month 
plan. The district used in this illustration has two 
clubs of twelve ministers each, with ' ' duplicate ' ' 
courses. 

The ' ' companion ' ' course has been tried also, 
with good results. Two separate lists of books, 
similar in character, are used, and at the close of the 
year the clubs exchange the courses and thus provide 
for another year with little extra cost, except for 
printing, and the preparation of the books for the 
second circulation. 
Disposal. The ^^ companion " course plan is more econom- 
ical, but the ^^ duplicate " course is in some respects 
superior, for more members of the clubs have read the 
same books in a given time, and the earlier meetings 
are more fruitful. At the last meeting of the year 
the books can be sold to the highest bidders accord- 
ing to the following notice : 

BOOK SALE. 



Important ! Without fail, please have every hook of the 
Reading Courses at this meeting I 

Absentee inembers (now in other Districts) will please be sure 
io forward their October books to their successors in the course, 
November 2d, or in case your successor is also out of the District, 
forward you7 book to the chairman, Columbus, Ohio, who after 
the November meeting will mail the book to whom it may belong 
for November. 



lOI 



All members now in the District will bring their books to the 
meeting, and exchange. 

All the Books Will Be Sold 
to the Highest Bidders at our 

November meeting. Absentee members (in other Districts) can 
send bids on any book in either course. 

These books will be sold with the understanding that they 
will be delivered to the buyers by January i, 1904, by those who 
have the December books, respectively, and upon receipt of the 
books by the buyer, payment is to be made to the Chairman. 
All books are to be forwarded by mail, prepaid, together with a 
postal card of notification. 

The membership fee need not exceed an annual 
cost of ^1.25 to ^1.50. It is essential that the books 
be inclosed in substantial covers of manilla paper or 
leatherette. The latter is inexpensive and preferable, 
as each division of the club can have its distinctive 
color. 

Upon the outer surface of the front cover should 
be pasted the printed slip, shown in the specimen, 
and upon the inner front cover the supplemental list 
of readings, if such readings are adopted. Of course 
a club can be composed of any number of members. 
If six, the course would end in six months. 

Many ministers have confessed that, by the stim- 
ulus of such arrangement, and by the obligations 
imposed, their reading has been broader, more sys- 
tematic, and has included more volumes than would 
have been studied otherwise. 



I02 



PROGRAM WORK. 

Every minister has more or less of such service to 
render. Too commonly the preliminary preparation 
is neglected, and at last a stereotyped and conven- 
tional arrangement is the result. ^^ Original Sin," 
* ' How to Take the Collections, " ' ^ After the Revival 
— What?" and, of course, the ^* opening" sermon 
(whatever that means), are jotted down. Then, 
space being left, one or two addresses of welcome, 
and responses, complete the unstudied bill -of- fare. 
Program Building. The systematic worker acts differently. He be- 
gins at once to plant his subject in envelope soil and 
start the growth. As he reads and thinks, looks 
down the columns of his church paper, studies re- 
ports of work elsewhere, and considers local con- 
ditions, he makes written siiggestions, and has, 
eventually, a mine of miscellany for logical digestion 
and development. There will be no worry at the 
last, but naturalness of construction for cumulative 
effect, a newness in phraseology and art in printing. 

THE PREPARATION OF -COPY." 

Writing for publication is not difficult for one 
who trains in mental discipline. Correct orthog- 
raphy and grammatical construction are not the ex- 
hibits of genius, but of labor. 

Common faults are : vain repetitions, tiresome elab- 



— I03 — 

oration, cant and threadbare phraseology, and florid 
rhetoric. 

Much may be left to the intelligence of the 
auditor. The best illustration can be given in a 
brief setting, so that the gem shows. Then proof- 
reading is a responsible duty, as well as a mercy to 
the public. 

In preparing for the press, it is well to remember Facts Need Not Be 
that condensation is golden. There is a disposition ^''^^ched. 
to preach about our news, for the ^* ruling passion " 
is strong. Facts need little elaboration. The 
reader's imagination can be relied upon to fill in some 
particulars. Besides, every line costs in print, rang- 
ing from pennies to dimes. It is remarkable how 
much can be said in brief form. Every word in a 
telegram counts. 

Clearness in the copy, logical development, and Essentials, 
critical style are essentials in all printed forms. 
Outside of record books, and certain prepared forms, 
paper is for one-sided use only. 

CHURCH RECORDS. 

No books are more important, and in general, so 
imperfectly kept, as Church records. Any other or- 
ganization than the Church would be in a riot of 
confusion by such carelessness. 

Many a patient, painstaking minister has spent 
days and weeks of precious time trying to correct 
the errors, and worse, of his shiftless predecessor. 



— I04 — 

Records are It has often been officially stated that the records 
"Kept, g^j-g properly kept when investigation would show that 
the only thing to the credit of the official custodian 
is that he has kept the records — from utter destruc- 
tion! 

One's Church membership record is as valuable in 
its way as the census of his sheep, or the acreage of 
his crops, or the number of his dogs, not naming 
Religious Gene- other registrations of value. Religious genealogy is 
alogy* more important than family history, and is worthy of 
critical notation. There is no excuse for faultiness 
in this upon the part of the pastor or other custodian. 

Endless controversies, and heart-burnings, have 
resulted from defective records. Recently a ' ' Church 
Letter Bureau" was established by the Ministers' 
Meeting of Chicago to locate newcomers, and the 
aid of the home pastors is invoked. The Church 
has lost as much by lack of proper clerical system as 
by other causes more commonly discussed. 

Besides the pocket pastoral book and the parish 
membership record, the pastor should have his own 
ministerial record book for perpetual use in all the 
charges he serves. In this he will have his life work 
illumined and classified, by calendar quarters, and 
years, and pastorates. 

A line drawn across the page at the close of each 
three months gives him at a glance all the items for 
his quarterly report to the Church. 



~ 105 — 

PASTOR'S PARISH RECORD. 
INDEX PAGE. 



Divisions. Page 

1. Local Events, 35 

2. Biographical, 60 

3. Pastor's Quarterly Reports, 100 

Membership, 

4. Candidates for Membership, 180 

5. Received into Membership, 210 

6. Enrolled by Certificate, 230 

7. Dismissed by Certificate, 250 

8. Deceased Members, 270 

9. Funerals of Non-Members Conducted, . . , 290 

10. Withdrawn or excluded from Membership, . .310 

11. Baptisms— Children, page 320; Adults, . . . 330 

12. Marriages, 34^ 

13. Official Lists by Years, 380 

14. Midweek Service Programs — Quarterly, . . . 4<X) 

The Writer's Ready Reference Record, described else- 
where, is admirably adapted to serve the purpose of a 
Pastor' s Parish Record, and an extra copy for this use will 
cost no more than an ordinary well-bound blank book. 



— io6 — 



CANDIDATES FOR MEMBERSHIP. 

First Quarter^ Jan. -Mar ch^ igoo. 



Church. 



Page i8o. 



Jan. j>. Jennie Byerly. 

John A. MoriHson. 

Alice Dealin. 
Feb. y. Carlos Edwards, 

Lula Einerson. 

George H. Evans, 
Mar. 20. Blanche Woosley, 

Henry Congdon. 



Second Quarter, April-June, igoo. 



Third Quarter, July-Sept., igoo. 



RECEIVED INTO MEMBERSHIP. 



Page 2IO. 
First Quarter, Jan. March,-igo4, 

Jan. II, Mrs. Mary Hill. 
Sadie Carnot, 
Henry E. Gorman. 



Second Quarter, April-June, igoj. 



T07 



ENROLLED BY CERTIFICATE. 



Page 230. 

First Quarter, Jan.- March ^ igo^. 

Jan. 8. Mrs. Cecilia Brown, Guilford, Ind. 
20. Leroy H. Burnham, Prospect, Ohio. 



DISMISSED BY CERTIFICATE. 

First Quarter, Jan. -March, igoj. 

Jan. 20. Edward Murphy, to St. Paul, Cincinnati, 
Feb. 14^ Michael E, Ranger^ to Maysville, Ky, 



DECEASED MEMBERS. 



Page 270. 
First Quarter, Jan.-March, igoi. 
Jan. 14. Henry Humen, dropsy, age jo. Funeral res. 

I-IJ-OI. 



io8 — 



BAPTISMS.— Children. 



Page 230. 

First Quarter, Jan. -March, igo2. 
Jan. 2j. Alma, dau. Henry and Ellen Prince, b. Ap. 10, ''01. 



MARRIAGES. 



Page 340. 

First Quarter, Jan.— March, igoj. 
Jan. 12. Rufus L. Hindle, Esther I. Reuvi. Fee, $^. 



MIDWEEK CHURCH SERVICE. Page 400. 

First Quarter, Jan.-March, igo^, 

Jan. 6. Family Religion. 

Lesson, Josh, xxiv, ij-2j. Outline Program. 
Feb. 14. Christia7i Enterprise, etc. 



SYSTEM IN CHURCH WORK. 

The great Churches are the working Churches. 
Labor and bring forth, is the Divine rule. In a 
graphic account of **The Every-day Life of a Great 
Church," the correspondent said : ^^The business of 
a great Church would be futile and ineffective if its 
daily routine of business did not provide an aterial 
system reaching directly to every man, woman, and 
child in its communion. . . . As in any well- The Future is 
regulated business enterprise, the future is antici- Planned, 
pated; business meetings, communion seasons, be- 
nevolent collections, anniversaries, assembly services, 
and special exercises are never forgotten or passed 
by, but have due preparation in advance. ' ' 

No wonder the Church is great. It plans for Laboring for 
greatness. It works for greatness. Therefore, it"^'"- 
achieves. Business succeeds by business methods. 
The Church can not conquer otherwise. Neither 
can the Christian minister reach his power except by 
disciplinary devotion to his calling. 

ADMINISTRATION. 
The business management of a Church organiza- Business Manage- 
tion helps to determine its influence in any commu- '"^"*- 
nity. In some denominations large responsibility 

109 



— no — 

is given the pastor, and in all Churches he is the 
executive head. 

Before a new ecclesiastical year is born, due 
provision should be made for it. Its arrival should 
be scheduled as astronomers forecast the transit of 
a heavenly body. 

The advent of a calendar period may mean great 
revolutions, calamities, or the fulfillment of Christian 
prophecy in tremendous measures. 
New Church Year. A new Church year is a Divine chance for achieve- 
ment. It should be given every material and spiritual 
aid in its passing. 

OFFICIAL WORK. 

The Official Meet- The stated official meetings can be saved from 
'"9- humdrum and pessimism only by diligent program 
outlines. 
The Budget. First, the budget must be prepared. Liberal 
estimates should be made for ministerial support; 
care and repair of property, music, and t^xes ; local 
extension work ; charities and the general missionary 
enterprises of the denomination; and the parish 
canvassed for pledges exceeding the total amount 
needed. 

Public efforts with doubtfial devices are emergency 
expedients to overcome previous official neglect, in 
most instances. 

The people must be trained to provide the avail- 



Ill 



able capital for the work of religion, and they are in 
the Church communion for that purpose. 

As in any other public body, the people have a Public Official 
right to expect official reports of the institution at Statements, 
stated times, in order that the material condition and 
needs of the Church may be known. 

Neatly printed official messages to the people 
should forerun every new year, to promote sympathy, 
inspire mutual confidence, and to secure the essential 
co-operation. 

This prenatal message ought to contain a state- 
ment of the obligations of the Church, the financial 
plan, and an exhortation. 

The monthly or quarterly official statements set Encourage the 
forth the obligations and receipts of the current month People, 
or quarter, with words of due praise and encourage- 
ment for the parishioners and friends of the Church, 
and a forecast of work desired in the succeeding 
month or quarter. 

Besides the printed message, the proper officer 
should read reports of the work of the Church to the 
congregation at stated times. It is not extravagant 
to say that failure is almost impossible where system 
is worked. 

THE OFFICIAL MEETING. 
The regular order means prayer, the minutes 
read, financial report, unfinished business, and the 
routine remainder. 



112 



Individual Official But if each member of the official body recognized 
^"ty^as his conscientious duty, in the monthly interval, the 
consideration of this question : What can be done to 
advance the interests of the Church ? If an odd mo- 
ment each day were so taken — can the results be pre- 
dicted ? 
Program Sugges- Glance at this program, not wholly hypothetical, 
tions. 'pi^e Pastor's memoranda for the business meeting 
at a certain time in the year show that discussion will 
be invited on ^^Improvement of our Church Life;" 
* ' Suggestions for Ushers ; " " Additions to the Order 
of Public Worship." 

One officer will speak five minutes on '' How to 
Advance the Work of the Church ;" another will out- 
line ^ ' The Way to Increase Interest in Church At- 
tendance ; ' ' then, each one is requested to offer the 
product of his thought in the interest of the Church, 
since the previous meeting. 
Business Consul- This is business consultation, like that of bank 
tation. directors and all prosperous corporations. 

But that Church official meeting should not ad- 
journ until the pastor and his cabinet have the plan 
of work devised for the new month, to be laid before 
the congregation next Sunday morning. 
The Work Fore- With religious business conducted in such manner ; 
cast, ^^y{^\l meetings held under definite program, which 
should include everything needing attention, even to 
a broken window glass, interest will never flag. 



--II3 — 

PRINTING. 

It is too late in the history of time to question Value of Printing, 
the value of the printer's art. Every subject of 
human interest, and every institution and business 
must be presented and exploited by its agencies. 

An appropriation for printing has as legitimate a The Weekly 
place in the financial budget as that for light and l-^^*'^** 
fuel. The weekly leaflet, containing the schedule, 
special notices, order of worship, and official direc- 
tory, is the ideal. Secular advertisements in these 
prints are of doubtful propriety. On festival occa- 
sions, as Easter, Children 's-day, Christmas, etc., a 
special issue of the folder is appreciated. 

A year-book of the parish, with a complete direct- Year-Book, 
ory of the membership and organizations of the 
Church, is of great value. If it can be kept free 
from trade announcements, so much the better, al- 
though there is nothing objectionable in a business 
directory of the membership, if confined to an 
appendix. 



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A CHOIR ORGANIZATION. 

CHOIR LEAGUE OF SPENCER CHURCH. 

ORGANIZED DECEMBER, 1892. 



The object of this organization is twofold : To cultivate the 
art of singing among its members, and to furnish appropriate 
music for the stated and special services of the Church. 

CONDITIONS OF MEMBERSHIP. 

1. All who consent to become members of the Choir League 
must be nominated by the Leader and confirmed by the Music 
Committee of the Church. 

2. Meetings for practice may be appointed by the Leader as 
often as he deems necessary or practicable. 

3. Attendance upon these meetings shall be obligatory upon 
all members, unless lawful excuse be given. 

4. The Leader shall have the right to assign such parts in 
music to members as he may decide are best suited to their voices, 
or to change their parts for better effects ; or, if any member' s voice 
can not be made to harmonize with other voices, after fair trial, he 
shall have the right to excuse such a person from singing and from 
membership in the Choir. 

5. Members are expected to fully improve the time allotted for 
practice in the meetings appointed for that purpose, and inattention 
or disturbance during rehearsal can not be tolerated. 

6. It is expected that all members of the League will make it 
a point of honor to be prompt in action and attendance. 

7. Books and all other property of the Choir or Church, if lost 
or injured, must be made good by the member at fault, according to 
the estimate of the Leader or Music Committee. 

8. The members of this society are expected to set a good ex- 
ample of conduct before the congregation during religious services. 

9. Refusal to conform to these conditions of membership 
herein set forth, or to any part thereof, may be sufficient cause to 
forfeit the membership of the one at fault. 

10. To all the foregoing regulations, every member gives 
approval, and consents to be governed accordingly by their sig- 
natures in the Choir book of membership. 

By order of 

The Music Committee. 



THE CHURCH CALENDAR. 

Times and seasons, moons and festivals, have ed- 
ucational, inspirational, and evangelistic values, when 
observed aright. The careful minister learns this 
truth by trial. 

Liturgical Churches have their historic calendrial 
order by ecclesiastical appointment, but all denomi- 
nations need some kind of workable calendar for the 
year. 

New-Year, Easter, and Christmas have general Calendar Days. 
observance throughout Christendom. Besides these, 
other days should be set apart in the general fore- 
cast, as : Autumnal Roll-call, Birthdays, Children 's- 
day. Church Memorial Anniversary, Monthly Rally, 
National, Wisdom Culture, etc. 

In illustration of feasible observance of calendar 
ideas, some suggestions are offered. 

NEW- YEAR. 

A holiday message, and memento, to the families 
of the parish, expressing hope and personal interest 
in their welfare and usefulness, and an announcement 
of the congregational arrangement in which their 

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interest is solicited, will be worth while. This may 
proceed from the pastor, or from both the pastor and 
the Church officers. 

EASTER SUNDAY. 

There is now almost universal interest manifested 
in this crowning anniversary event of Christianity. 
Pastoral Letter. In advance of the day a pastoral letter of greeting 
is due the people. 

A program worthy of the best effort of pastor, 
choir, and congregation should be prepared. 
Sanctity Pre- The hour of worship should be guarded against 
served, any unnecessary intrusion. No needless announce- 
ment, no appeal for money, and no irrelevant word 
or conduct, should mar the order of the occasion. 
A specimen pastoral letter is subjoined. 



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PASTORAL EASTER LETTER. 



YEAR OF OUR LORD, 1898. 



PASTORAL EASTER GREETING AND 
MESSAGE TO THE BELOVED 
CONGREGATION OF 



FIRST METHODIST EPISCOPAL 

CHURCH 



FOR SABBATH, APRIL 10. 



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Dear Friends: — The triumphant festival season 
of the Church is at hand. Our Lord is risen ! May 
He appear anew to your believing hearts ! The con- 
sciousness of His presence and power in our lives 
is worth infinitely more than all earth can offer us. 
Our relationship to His Church is of great signifi- 
cance, and faithfulness to the Divine order thereof is 
the sum of all human righteousness. 

EASTER SABBATH 
is rally-day. We want all our people present at the 
morning service. It may cost some effort and cause 
some inconvenience, but of all holy days the anni- 
versary of the resurrection is the time when the 
Lord's temple should be filled. The aged and infirm 
will be assisted to the sanctuary by our people who 
have carriages, provided their names are reported to 
the pastor. Likewise the superintendent of our Sun- 
day-school, and his fellow workers, most earnestly 
desire the presence of every member of the school at 
the Easter session, and also cordially invite all parents 
and friends to lend their presence, and certainly this 
reasonable request will not be denied. 

OUR CHURCH BENEVOLENCES 
have suffered during the past year for lack of funds. 
Have we practiced any self-denial to aid the general 
missionary work of the Church ? There is no more 
fitting time to lay our gifts on God's altar for the 
y^ork oi Missions , Church Extension^ FreedmetC s Aid^ 



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Sunday-school Union, Tracts, Bible Distribution, and 
Superannuate Preachers, than when we meet to cele- 
brate Christ's victory over death and the grave. Let 
us remember what this means to us, and what the Lord 
expects us to make it mean to the world I The Church 
reasonably expects every man, woman, and child to 
perform the sacred duty of giving, and whether the 
amount is cents or dollars, the gift is acceptable to 
God if it represents the giver's ability and a heart of 
love. Our Sunday-school raises about sixty dollars for 
missions, leaving three hundred and fifty dollars to be 
provided by the congregation, for all causes. We also 
ask that you remember the Missionary Debt, with a 
special gift. 

Please keep your missionary offerings until the col- 
lection plates are passed the second time, near the close 
of the service, as the usual church collection will be 
taken first, at the stated time. Inclosed with this ad- 
dress you will find a card and envelope. If convenient 
to make a cash offering, use only the envelope ; other- 
wise use the card for your subsciption, and retain the 
envelope for future payment. 

Again requesting your presence at the morning 
service of Easter Sabbath, and at all the services of 
the Church to which you belong, and imploring the 
blessing of God the Father, the Son, and the Holy 
Spirit upon you and yours forever. 

We remain your fellow-servant, 

-. Pastor. 



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Our Benevolent Apportionments for 1898. 

For the general missionary and benevolent work 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, we are asked to 
raise the following amounts : 

For Missions, ^245 

** Church Extension, , 45 

** Freedmen's Aid, 40 

" American Bible Society, 10 

** Sunday-school Union, . . . . „ 3 

** Tract Society, » 3 

" Superannuate Preachers, * . 72 

Total, ^418 

Two shares of Missionary Debt, 40 

Less amount given by Sunday-school, 58 

Total Amount to Raise, ^400 

If every one will bear a part of this, there will be 
no failure. Let cash offerings be made by all who 
find it convenient to do so, as this method saves the 
labor of collections afterward. 



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BIRTHDAYS. 

It is a beautiful custom to observe the birthdays 
of the people. The card index system can be em- 
ployed for such notation, and then a special chrono- 
logical order of these names and dates will show the 
ones for the current week. 

For the young and strong it is sufficient that the Method of Observ- 
list for the week be printed in the leaflet, or read^nce. 
from the pulpit, and at the close of the Sunday 
morning worship the greetings of the people may be 
given. 

For the aged, whose natal day is at hand, how 
beautiful to have them in the front pew, where the 
pastor may address a word of greeting to them ! 

If absent, when their names are called, it should 
be understood that in some way they will be remem- 
bered, the sick likewise. 

For the distant, a note by mail, on behalf of the Postal Service. 
Church, could be sent by clerk or pastor, and would 
suffice. 

CHURCH MEMORIAL DAY. 

It is a common practice among fraternal orders to Fraternal Orders, 
have an established day on which to assemble in a 
memorial service for the dead. 

Why should not the Church so perpetuate the 
memories of those who have passed out into life 
immortal ? 



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The Church At the close of the Church year, on the day 
Memorial, appointed, let appropriate worship be ordained for 
the hour. Following the roll-call of the deceased, 
the pastor delivers the memorial sermon. Warm 
hand-clasps of sympathy follow, and the bond of 
fellowship is strengthened. It is a service in which 
heaven and earth unite in holy communion. 

AUTUMNAL ROLL-CALL AND VETERAN'S- 

DAY. 

Affection and The Oriental religionist excels in veneration for 
Remembrance, ^g^ ^^ need to cultivate this grace. In honor of 
ripened Christian life, and with a show of true 
affection and remembrance for those who are reach- 
ing toward the end of time according to the course of 
nature, and who are in clearer view, and nearer, of 
their immortal coronation than the rank and file, a 
Autumn Festival, festal day should be appointed when the world of 
forest, field, and garden is golden. 

The honor roll of veterans may be called first, 
followed by the roll-call of the entire membership of 
the Church. 

In an organized way due provision should be 
made for bringing every veteran and every other 
member of the congregation to the service, where 
such assistance may be needed. By diligent prepara- 
tion for the event it may be one of the best and 
most helpful of the year. 



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MONTHLY RALLIES. 

The first Sunday in each month can be made profit- 
able for increasing attendance, and interest in the 
work of the Church, by having it announced as a 
special day. 

By systematic effort of the Church workers, the Utility Suggested, 
members of the congregation, Sunday-school, and 
all the organizations, who have become careless, are 
visited and urged to report by their presence at the 
Church on rally-day. It is a time for bringing in 
strangers who are expected to unite with the Church. 
It can be emphasized as a day for decision upon the 
part of those who have made no confession of Christ. 

A workers' meeting some days in advance should Tlie Workers' 
be held in order that the field may be scanned and '"^^*'"9* 
the work apportioned. It is surprising what definite 
aims and diligent pursuit can accomplish. 

The showing made upon rally -day, if proper effort 
has been put forth, is rich in compensation. 

NATIONAL OBSERVANCES. 
^^ Independence, " '' Memorial, ' ' and other his- 
toric days, should receive appropriate recognition, 
for their educational and patriotic values. 

WISDOM CULTURE. 
At least one Sunday each year is needed to awaken Reading and 
interest in good reading and lyceum work. Lyceum. 

The greatest mental achievement is to know God 



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in his works, as the greatest spiritual achievement is 
to know Him in one's life. It is also true that we 
know man by his works, and as we approach ideal 
human conditions we find the works of man assuming 
a resemblance to the Divine. Therefore, mental and 
spiritual culture must assimilate. To starve the mind 
will not feed the soul. 

Willful Ignorance. To care for the soul one must feel the quickenings 
of his mental powers. Churches have lost their life 
by willful ignorance of God's work in the world. 
The people have isolated themselves, and the Chris- 
tian world-vision is lost. Good reading is not a 
Culture Impera- luxury. Self-improvement in the realm of knowledge 
*'^^*is mandatory. 

The religious journal, books, the current news- 
paper, and magazine literature, demand attention. 

That pastor is recreant who fails to plan for the 
mental welfare of his people. A definite day with 
new and interesting program features for securing the 
largest attendance, will bring definite results. 
Lyceum. Lyceum work deserves special recognition. There 
is a new interest in it throughout the Church, and it 
is a hopeful sign. A course should be planned for 
every community, with five or more numbers to be 
be given at intervals of two or more weeks, in the 
favorable season. 

Lyceum Courses. Literary and historic lectures, concerts and ora- 
torical contests, may constitute the series. 



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Special courses of lectures may be given on the 
^^ mission fields " of the Church, for instance, or in 
any realms of special study, with great profit. The 
pastor might help himself and his people by such use 
of his own resources. 

Reading courses in the parish are valuable aids to Reading Courses, 
the life of the Church and community. In many 
places the interest in such work has become intense. 

Institute work established for the purpose of teach- Church Institute, 
ing and training the people for Christian service will 
have a wide influence and power, under proper treat- 
ment. 



MINISTERIAL FUNCTIONS. 

In pastoral duty, no less than in other forms of 
ministerial service, systematic work is needed. Not 
the perfunctory, mechanical, or professional round, 
but that kind of ministration that reveals true pastoral 
supervision, and clerically accounts for it. Special 
lists of the aged, sick, distressed, bereaved, and 
strangers, should be kept scrupulously correct. 

Calls on the parishioners should be made, with a 
definite object in view in each case. Pastoral visi- 
tation is for religious ends. Personal, social, and 
sympathetic elements in such ministry are cultivated 
as so many qualities to be used in influencing people 
to activity in righteousness. 

Personal religion is not an independent identity, 
but is maintained and nourished for corporate pur- 
pose in the welfare of the Church. Pastoral super- 
vision, therefore, must have its credential of validity 
recognized in rallying the members of the flock to the 
support of the Church I Otherwise, labor is lost, and 

time misspent. 

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PASTORAL LETTERS. 

This form of effort may be employed to advantage 
to put the pastor in touch with serious people, stran- 
gers, youth, and distant members, or for consolatory 
purpose, in such instances where other means of ap- 
proach can not be used. 

The birthday plan will be remembered here. 
Many do see that even evangelism may have its vic- 
tories by epistolary agency as in the apostolic days. 

FUNEREAL DUTY. 

No ministerial work is so delicate and trying as 
that pertaining to the advent of death, and the 
funeral service. The memoir, address, the prayer. 
Scripture and music, — ^all deserve careful study and 
use. 

Linguistic reformation is needed in funeral 
speech. Professional conventionalisms, and meaning- 
less terms of endearment, and repetitious style, should 
be avoided. ^'He died in his eightieth year" is a 
better form than to say ^^seventy-nine years, five 
months, and twenty-nine days." Of what impor- 
tance are the latter phrases ? 

' ^ He was a true Christian " is an expression 
which means as much as the tautology of the follow- 
ing : ' ' He was a true Christian, a kind husband and 
father, a good neighbor, a generous supporter of the 



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Church, and loyal to the means of grace, and died 
as he lived, in the faith of the gospel. ' ' 

The funeral service should not be marred by 
needless announcements of the parts of the service, 
or whispered consultations. A brief and prompt 
record of every death, and funeral service should be 
made in the parish record, in the minister's own 
book, and on his outline address. 

ORDER OF PUBLIC WORSHIP. 

Disorder would be a truer word to describe the 
worship, in many instances. The people have not 
learned how to worship, and there is no teacher. 
The systematic minister has given forethought to the 
public prayer; the Scripture readings, hymns, and 
congregational parts are in readiness ; and when the 
minute passes, the service is introduced. 

^^ Promptness," said the cynic, ^^is a bad habit 
of always being on time and getting tired to death 
waiting for people who are not." But persistence 
in promptness will win, and there is no substitute for 
it. Tardiness and slovenliness have ruined more 
ministers than lack of talent. 

There should be constant effort to enrich the 
worship in every part, that the climatic influence of 
the sanctuary may have a tonic effect even upon 
those who are spiritually barren. The musical de- 
velopment of the Church suggests a theme on which 



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a book might be written. Its importance is but 
dimly perceived. Not only the Sunday service, but 
the midweek meeting, requires special preparation. 
Prepare the way of the Lord ! 

EVANGELISM. 

Here is the problem. How can the Church dis- 
ciple the community? Not by spectacular public 
efforts to marshal the religious forces of the parish. 

No other organization parades the faults and 
weaknesses of its personnel before the world as does 
the Church. 

There is nothing gained by it. The period oj 
preparation should precede the public review. Re- 
proof, correction, equipment, and instruction belong 
to the categories of domestic discipline. The leader- 
ship of the pastor must be recognized and supported 
by the Church. 

The midweek meeting is a rallying center. For 
weeks it should be employed to intensify spiritual 
hunger for a richer fruitage in the Church. 

The official meeting must be utilized. By per- 
sonal pastoral effort the presence of the overseers 
must be secured for the purpose of consultation. 
The pastor is firm in his purpose not to attempt 
special evangelistic work until he has the sanction 
and pledged co-operation of the office-bearers. Fi- 
nally he wins. 
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Next, the Sunday-school management must be 
sought. Will the officers and teachers stand by the flag? 

Then, the pastor visits in turn each class^ and 
presents his cause. The young people's organization 
must be noticed and the leaders there interviewed. 

Now, the young men of the Church may be called 
together by the pastor for a conference on evangel- 
istic work, and the young women invited to a similar 
meeting. Earnest words are spoken and serious pur- 
poses formed. 

To provide the pastor with pointers, cards may 
be distributed in the congregations, with the request 
that upon them be written, without signature, answers 
to these questions : ^^Why do people neglect religious 
duty ?" " Why are you not a Christian ?' ' ^ ^ What 
influences you most in worship?" etc. 

These are a few suggestions for young ministers — 
a mere outline. They may promote thought by 
which expedients unmentioned here may be employed 
to awaken the life of the Church to the great work 
for which it is ordained. 

Weeks of systematic labor may be employed in 
personal consultation before the public means are 
used. The time for reaping is last and briefest. 

To untangle the skeins of life, bring order out of 
chaos, right the wrongs, save the fallen and sub- 
merged, and present humanity faultless in body, 
mind, and spirit before the Lord of all, requires the 



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discipline of an army, the zeal of a conquerer, the 
strength of godliness, and the genius of persistent 
endeavor. 

**A great temptation waits us all, 
Who long for great things and do small ; 
We toil among the trivial sods 
Within the garden of the gods, 
While the dark clusters hang above 
Rich with the juice of life and love ; 
We can not reach and pluck them down, 
These fair pomegranates of renown, 
Whose juice life's early hope restores, 
For we must work and do the chores. ' ' 



MAY 23 1904 



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